Re: [PATCH] m68k: mm: Remove check for VM_IO to fix deferred I/O

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> Hi Geert,
> 
> for hwregs_present(), the exception fixup will handle any access error 
> (through send_fault_sig()), so this should continue to work.
> 
> Why the special handling of VM_IO pages? Maybe hp300 had marked all IO 
> register pages VM_IO to distinguish IO faults from VM faults...
> 
> The only other area I can imagine this might have an impact is the Mac's 
> pseudo-DMA - FInn might want to give this some testing.
> 

mac_scsi.c and mac_esp.c don't use ioremap(). They rely on head.S:

        mmu_map_eq      #0x50000000,#0x03000000,%d3

Having said that, I will run some tests if you still think it necessary.




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