Re: [PATCH tip/sched/core] mm/early_ioremap: Adjust early_ioremap system_state check

[Tom Lendacky]

On 6/16/2017 5:58 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > A recent change added a new system_state value, SYSTEM_SCHEDULING, which
> > exposed a warning issued by early_ioreamp() when the system_state was not
> > SYSTEM_BOOTING. Since early_ioremap() can be called when the system_state
> > is SYSTEM_SCHEDULING, the check to issue the warning is changed from
> > system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING to system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING.
>
> Errm, why is that early_ioremap() stuff called after we enabled the
> scheduler? At that point the regular ioremap stuff is long working.

As part of the SME support I'm decrypting the trampoline area during
set_real_mode_permissions().  Since it was still valid to use the
early_memremap()/early_ioremap() functions I chose to use those instead
of creating new ioremap functions to support encrypted or decrypted
mappings with and without write-protection.

I could look into adding new ioremap APIs, but their usage would be
limited to this one case.  Since the early_memremap() works I thought
that would be the best path and just adjust the WARNing condition.

Thanks,
Tom

> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx