Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] hwmon: xgene: Add hwmon driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 3:37:05 PM CEST Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:41:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:55:56 PM CEST Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > +               ctx->comm_base_addr = cppc_ss->base_address;
> > > +               if (ctx->comm_base_addr) {
> > > +                       ctx->pcc_comm_addr =
> > > +                                       acpi_os_ioremap(ctx->comm_base_addr,
> > > +                                                       cppc_ss->length);
> > > 
> > 
> > This causes the arm64 allmodconfig build to fail now, according to
> > kernelci:
> > 
> >       1  ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > Should this perhaps call ioremap() or memremap() instead?
> > 
> Hmmm ... almost sounds to me like blaming the messenger. e7cd190385d1 ("arm64:
> mark reserved memblock regions explicitly in iomem") starts using a function
> in acpi_os_ioremap() which is not exported. On top of that, memblock_is_memory()
> is declared as __init_memblock, which makes me really uncomfortable.
> If acpi_os_ioremap() must not be used by modules, and possibly only during
> early (?) initialization, maybe its declaration should state those limitations ?

I think there is more wrong with it, the driver also accesses a shared
memory area with kernel pointers using readl_relaxed/writel_relaxed,
which are only valid on MMIO registers.

I've prepared a patch, please have a look at the follow-up email.

	Arnd