Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Fix memmap to be initialized for the entire section

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 09:32:31 EST


On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 08:51:32PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> Thus, I don't see where my patch breaks code. Even acpi_os_ioremap()
> keeps the same behaviour as before since it still uses memblock_is_
> memory(). Could you more describe your concerns why do you think this
> patch breaks the kernel and moves the problem somewhere else? I
> believe it fixes the problem at all.

acpi_os_ioremap always ends up in __ioremap_caller, regardless of
memblock_is_memory(). __ioremap_caller then fails if pfn_valid is true.

Will