On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:36:48AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On surprise removal my expectation is that the driver keeps the the
> ioremap mapping alive for at least a synchronize_rcu() period.  With
> that in place the rcu_read_lock() in kmap_atomic_pfn_t() should keep
> the mapping alive for the short duration, or otherwise prevent new
> mappings.  However, I missed converting the driver to order its
> iounmap() with respect to the pfn range registration via devres, will
> fix.

Right.  I guess the best idea is to replace devm_register_kmap_pfn_range
with an interface that does the ioremap, in which case the cleanup
function can take care of the proper ordering behind the drivers back.
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