Re: [GIT PULL] arm64 fix for 5.14

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:03:29AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The ARM code actually uses that complex pfn_to_section_nr() and
> memblock_is_memory() etc. That seems a bit of an overkill, since the
> memblock code should have translated all that into being reserved.
> 
> But again, I don't actually know exactly what triggered the issue on
> ARM, so the above is just my "this seems to be a more proper check"
> suggestion.

They CCed me on their earlier discussion, but I did not catch up on it
until you responded to the pull request  If I understood it correct it
was about a platform device mapping a MMIO region (like a PCI bar),
but something about section alignment cause pfn_valid to mistrigger.