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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:58:15 -0800
From:   rishabhb@codeaurora.org
To:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
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        Sibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] remoteproc: qcom: Introduce driver to store pil
 info in IMEM
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On 2020-01-22 15:08, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Wed 22 Jan 14:56 PST 2020, rishabhb@codeaurora.org wrote:
>> On 2019-12-26 21:32, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>> > diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/qcom_pil_info.c
> [..]
>> > +static int pil_reloc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> > +{
>> > +	struct pil_reloc *reloc;
>> > +
>> > +	reloc = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*reloc), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +	if (!reloc)
>> > +		return -ENOMEM;
>> > +
>> > +	reloc->dev = &pdev->dev;
>> > +	reloc->map = syscon_node_to_regmap(pdev->dev.parent->of_node);
>> If there are multiple entries like "pil-reloc" in the imem node
>> mapping the entire imem multiple times may not work. Is there a way
>> we can somehow just iomap the required region for pil?
> 
> With the entire imem being represented as a syscon this will be
> ioremapped once and all callers of syscon_node_to_regmap() (or one of
> the other syscon getters) will get a regmap back that reference this 
> one
> mapping.
> 
> So doing it this way allow us to "map" sections of imem that is smaller
> than PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> 
> That said, it means that all imem users/clients should access imem
> through this syscon regmap.
> 
> Regards,
> Bjorn
Yes, the clients are spread around in different drivers currently.
So accessing same regmap is not possible.