Commit fd195c49 authored by Deepak Saxena's avatar Deepak Saxena Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] arm: allow for arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER

Version 6 of the ARM architecture introduces the concept of 16MB pages
(supersections) and 36-bit (40-bit actually, but nobody uses this) physical
addresses.  36-bit addressed memory and I/O and ARMv6 can only be mapped
using supersections and the requirement on these is that both virtual and
physical addresses be 16MB aligned.  In trying to add support for ioremap()
of 36-bit I/O, we run into the issue that get_vm_area() allows for a
maximum of 512K alignment via the IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER constant.  To work
around this, we can:

- Allocate a larger VM area than needed (size + (1ul << IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER))
  and then align the pointer ourselves, but this ends up with 512K of
  wasted VM per ioremap().

- Provide a new __get_vm_area_aligned() API and make __get_vm_area() sit
  on top of this. I did this and it works but I don't like the idea
  adding another VM API just for this one case.

- My preferred solution which is to allow the architecture to override
  the IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER constant with it's own version.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDeepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 9b4ee40e
......@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*
* Maximum alignment for ioremap() regions.
* Can be overriden by arch-specific value.
*/
#ifndef IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER
#define IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER (7 + PAGE_SHIFT) /* 128 pages */
#endif
struct vm_struct {
void *addr;
unsigned long size;
......
......@@ -158,8 +158,6 @@ int map_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area, pgprot_t prot, struct page ***pages)
return err;
}
#define IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER (7 + PAGE_SHIFT) /* 128 pages */
struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
......
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