On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 03:07:09PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > > > 在2023年11月23日十一月 下午12:29，Thomas Bogendoerfer写道： > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:13:11PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > >> > Ok. Thanks for the heads up. I'll fix the patch to be using ioremap() > >> > in v2. ioremap_uc() is just an macro-alias of ioremap() on MIPS. > >> > >> Perhaps we need to fix ioremap_cache so it can give a KSEG1 address? > > > > KSEG0 ? > > Ah yes it's KSEG0. the problem with all 32bit unmapped segments is their limitations in size. But there is always room to try to use unmapped and fall back to mapped, if it doesn't work. But I doubt anybody is going to implement that. > >> AFAIK for Loongson DMI is located at cached memory so using ioremap_uc > >> blindly will cause inconsistency. > > > > why ? > > Firmware sometimes does not flush those tables from cache back to memory. > For Loongson systems (as well as most MTI systems) cache is enabled by > firmware. kernel flushes all caches on startup, so there shouldn't be a problem. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
