Re: 2.6.33-git6 boot failure[x86_64] (WARN: atarch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:111)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Mar 01 2010 - 11:33:09 EST


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Wu Fengguang wrote:
Ah walk_system_ram_range() is actually doing almost the same alignment
> check as the removed x86 page_is_ram(), except that it calls func()
> with len=0. This happens when page_is_ram(cffa3000) is called.
>
> walk_system_ram_range():
> pfn = (unsigned long)(res.start >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> len = (unsigned long)((res.end + 1 - res.start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> ret = (*func)(pfn, len, arg);
>
> The following patch should fix the problem.

Right, that should fix it. Though I wonder whether we should warn
prominently about non page aligned e820 mapping entries.

Thanks,

tglx
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