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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 11:28:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH v3 12/27] of/address: Add infrastructure to declare
 MMIO as non-posted
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:40 PM Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:

> This implements the 'nonposted-mmio' and 'posted-mmio' boolean
> properties. Placing these properties in a bus marks all child devices as
> requiring non-posted or posted MMIO mappings. If no such properties are
> found, the default is posted MMIO.
>
> of_mmio_is_nonposted() performs the tree walking to determine if a given
> device has requested non-posted MMIO.
>
> of_address_to_resource() uses this to set the IORESOURCE_MEM_NONPOSTED
> flag on resources that require non-posted MMIO.
>
> of_iomap() and of_io_request_and_map() then use this flag to pick the
> correct ioremap() variant.
>
> This mechanism is currently restricted to Apple ARM platforms, as an
> optimization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>

This is fine with me atleast given that the nonposted IO is acceptable.
Caching the quirk state in a static local is maybe a bit overoptimized
but if the compiler can't see it but we can, why not.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij