Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: introduce xen_remap, use it instead of ioremap

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 13:59 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> ioremap can't be used to map ring pages on ARM because it uses device
> memory caching attributes (MT_DEVICE*).
> 
> Introduce a Xen specific abstraction to map ring pages, called
> xen_remap, that is defined as ioremap on x86 (no behavioral changes).
> On ARM it explicitly calls __arm_ioremap with the right caching
> attributes: MT_MEMORY.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

If you were respinning for any reason I might suggest
s/xen_remap/xen_map_shared/ or something of that nature.

Ian.


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