On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.k...@hp.com> wrote: > ioremap() checks if a target range is in RAM and fails the request > if true. There are multiple issues in the iormap RAM check interfaces. > > 1. region_is_ram() always fails with -1. > 2. The check calls two functions, region_is_ram() and > walk_system_ram_range(), which are redundant as both walk the > same iomem_resource table. > 3. walk_system_ram_range() requires RAM ranges be page-aligned in > the iomem_resource table to work properly. This restriction > has allowed multiple ioremaps to RAM which are page-unaligned. > > This patchset solves issue 1 and 2. It does not address issue 3, > but continues to allow the existing ioremaps to work until it is > addressed. > > --- > resend: > - Rebased to 4.2-rc2 (no change needed). Modified change logs. > > --- > Toshi Kani (3): > 1/3 mm, x86: Fix warning in ioremap RAM check > 2/3 mm, x86: Remove region_is_ram() call from ioremap > 3/3 mm: Fix bugs in region_is_ram() >
For the series... Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> I'm going to base my ioremap + memremap series on top of these fixes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
