Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754032AbbG2Vrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:47:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:34242 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753451AbbG2Vrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:47:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150729214358.GK30479@wotan.suse.de> References: <20150725023649.8664.59145.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150725023842.8664.97620.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150726172527.GA29513@lst.de> <20150727051258.GB15836@lst.de> <20150729065004.GA17162@lst.de> <20150729182712.GI30479@wotan.suse.de> <1438203638.3214.418.camel@hp.com> <20150729214358.GK30479@wotan.suse.de> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:47:40 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] arch: introduce memremap() From: Dan Williams To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Toshi Kani , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , "H. Peter Anvin" , Russell King , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 12 On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > While at it, Dan, will / should memremap() support overlapping calls ? > What is the expectation on behaviour ? It will be the same as ioremap(). Each mapping gets its own virtual address and overlapping calls are permitted. The only protection is that RAM is never mapped with an alias. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/