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Re: [PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in !SMP && !LPAE case

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On 08.09.2015 5:45, Zhang Zhen wrote:
> The arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER is introduced in
> commit: ff0daca([ARM] Add section support to ioremap) and
> commit: a069c89 ([ARM] 3705/1: add supersection support to ioremap()).
> But supersections and sections mappings are only used in !SMP && !LPAE case.
> Otherwise, mapping is created using the usual 4K pages.
>
> In most cases without !SMP && !LPAE, the big alignment cause high fragmentation
> issue in vmalloc area.
> Here we use arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in !SMP && !LPAE case,
> otherwise use generic IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER in include/linux/vmalloc.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> index b7f6fb4..3209012 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> @@ -76,10 +76,12 @@
>    */
>   #define XIP_VIRT_ADDR(physaddr)  (MODULES_VADDR + ((physaddr) & 0x000fffff))
>
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_ARM_LPAE)
>   /*
>    * Allow 16MB-aligned ioremap pages
>    */
>   #define IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER	24
> +#endif
>
>   #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
>

Hmm... This looks exactly like my old patch -
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/127620
(Thanks to Vladimir for pointing that out!)

Hasn't there been any progress about this issue?
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[PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in !SMP  && !LPAE case Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> - 2015-09-08 04:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in  !SMP && !LPAE case Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in  !SMP && !LPAE case Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> - 2015-09-09 03:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in  !SMP && !LPAE case Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2015-09-09 05:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] ARM:mm: define arch-specific IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER only in  !SMP && !LPAE case Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 20:30 +0200

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