__ioremap_caller() calls region_is_ram() to walk through the
iomem_resource table to check if a target range is in RAM, which was
added to improve the lookup performance over page_is_ram() (commit
906e36c5c7 "x86: use optimized ioresource lookup in ioremap
function"). page_is_ram() was no longer used when this change was
added, though.
__ioremap_caller() then calls walk_system_ram_range(), which had
replaced page_is_ram() to improve the lookup performance (commit
c81c8a1eee "x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages").
Since both checks walk through the same iomem_resource table for
the same purpose, there is no need to call both functions.
Aside of that walk_system_ram_range() is the only useful check at the
moment because region_is_ram() always returns -1 due to an
implementation bug. That bug in region_is_ram() cannot be fixed
without breaking existing ioremap callers, which rely on the subtle
difference of walk_system_ram_range() versus non page aligned ranges.
Once these offending callers are fixed we can use region_is_ram() and
remove walk_system_ram_range().
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437088996-28511-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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