On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 07:33:53AM +0100, Rouven Czerwinski wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 14:52 +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 09.11.2020, 14:44 +0100 schrieb Rouven Czerwinski:
> > > Annotate the different read and write functions with
> > > zero_page_{access/faulting}. This allows the cfi_flash driver to be used
> > > on the QEMU virt machine with an enabled MMU.
> >
> > I don't like this zero-page access allow in a driver at all. If you
> > have some free address space somewhere, you could also solve this issue
> > by remapping the IO resource to somewhere else in the address space,
> > deviating from the 1:1 mapping. The Tegra PCIe host driver does this,
> > if you need some inspiration.
>
> I totally agree, remapping the IO region sounds like a much better
> choice.
But where should it be mapped to? Just 4k upwards and hope that the area
just above the cfi flash isn't occupied by something else?
Sascha
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