Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: ioremap: Add arch_ioremap/iounmap()

From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: ioremap: Add arch_ioremap/iounmap()
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 22:32:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c848b48-6ddf-664a-6296-d85ab49a694d@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1DbNY6NzcwzjVFvd9yw6L3YBHQos_hmE=nG=6cuv1DAg@mail.gmail.com>


On 2022/5/24 20:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:25 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
>> Add special hook for architecture to verify or setup addr, size
>> or prot when ioremap() or iounmap(), which will make the generic
>> ioremap more useful.
>>
>>    arch_ioremap() return a pointer,
>>      - IS_ERR means return an error
>>      - NULL means continue to remap
>>      - a non-NULL, non-IS_ERR pointer is directly returned
>>    arch_iounmap() return a int value,
>>      - 0 means continue to vunmap
>>      - error code means skip vunmap and return directly
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> I don't really like interfaces that mix error pointers and NULL pointer
> returns.
>
> Would it be possible to have a special error code other than NULL
> for the fallback case?
I don't find a good error code, maybe  ENOTSUPP, any better suggestion?
>
>         arnd
>
> .