[PATCH v2 1/6] mips: dmi: Fix early remap on MIPS32

From: Serge Semin
Date: Sat Dec 02 2023 - 06:14:54 EST


dmi_early_remap() has been defined as ioremap_cache() which on MIPS32 gets
to be converted to the VM-based mapping. DMI early remapping is performed
at the setup_arch() stage with no VM available. So calling the
dmi_early_remap() for MIPS32 causes the system to crash at the early boot
time. Fix that by converting dmi_early_remap() to the uncached remapping
which is always available on both 32 and 64-bits MIPS systems.

Note this change shall not cause any regressions on the current DMI
support implementation because on the early boot-up stage neither MIPS32
nor MIPS64 has the cacheable ioremapping support anyway.

Fixes: be8fa1cb444c ("MIPS: Add support for Desktop Management Interface (DMI)")
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>

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Note even though this patch is fully correct from the current
ioremap()-based semantics point of view and shall fix the denoted problem,
Jiaxun thinks that it's better to provide a different fix since
dmi_early_remap() doesn't work correctly on even Loongson64 - the only
currently DMI-equipped platform. In v1 discussion he promised to provide a
better fix for the problem. Until then let's consider this patch as the
only currently available solution.

Changelog v2:
- Replace ioremap_uc() with using ioremap() due to having the former one
deprecated. (@Arnd)
- Extend patch log with a note regarding the unsynched caches concern.
(@Jiaxun)
---
arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
index 27415a288adf..dc397f630c66 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>

-#define dmi_early_remap(x, l) ioremap_cache(x, l)
+#define dmi_early_remap(x, l) ioremap(x, l)
#define dmi_early_unmap(x, l) iounmap(x)
#define dmi_remap(x, l) ioremap_cache(x, l)
#define dmi_unmap(x) iounmap(x)
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2.42.1