io mapping: improve documentation
Impact: add documentation Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ range, creating a permanent kernel-visible mapping to the resource. The
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map_atomic and map functions add the requested offset to the base of the
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map_atomic and map functions add the requested offset to the base of the
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virtual address returned by ioremap_wc.
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virtual address returned by ioremap_wc.
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On 32-bit processors, io_mapping_map_atomic_wc uses io_map_atomic_prot_pfn,
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On 32-bit processors with HIGHMEM defined, io_mapping_map_atomic_wc uses
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which uses the fixmaps to get us a mapping to a page using an atomic fashion.
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kmap_atomic_pfn to map the specified page in an atomic fashion;
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For io_mapping_map_wc, ioremap_wc() is used to get a mapping of the region.
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kmap_atomic_pfn isn't really supposed to be used with device pages, but it
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provides an efficient mapping for this usage.
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On 32-bit processors without HIGHMEM defined, io_mapping_map_atomic_wc and
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io_mapping_map_wc both use ioremap_wc, a terribly inefficient function which
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performs an IPI to inform all processors about the new mapping. This results
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in a significant performance penalty.
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