On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:02:05 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

quoted text
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>
> >> Understood.
> >>
> >> I guess I am more annoyed that this stealth semantics change
> >> appears to have broken everything that depends on pci_iomap(),
> >> including 90%+ of all libata drivers, unless I am missing
> >> something.
> >>
> >> That one piece of code (pci_iomap) was correct under the old 
> >> semantics, on x86 and elsewhere.  It's tested and working nicely,
> >> and depended upon by many drivers.
> >>
> > 
> > That one piece of code has had no effective change.  Under both the
> > old and the new code, both branches functionally because
> > ioremap_nocache(), in one case because of MTRR and in one case
> > because of PAT.
> 
> OK good...  libata uses it for controller registers exclusively, so
> that should be fine from an operational standpoint.
> 
> at the very least I 
> could have pointed out that lib/iomap.c wanted an update, and the 2.5
> yo discussion could have resurfaced.
> 

btw as a technical point: ioremap_cached() isn't guaranteed to give you cached memory.
In fact, on a PC, if you use ioremap_cached() on PCI bars, you will STILL get uncached
access, just because right now, it's not possible to give a cached mapping out!

We might want to try to change that in the future (by rewriting the MTRRs), but 
that would need a LOT of auditing of ioremap (ab)users to make sure they actually
mean "cached" when they ask for cached (pci_iomap... I'm not convinced it's users 
really can deal with cached) and it also will take a LOT of testing.



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