linux-kernel - Re: [for 4.4 PATCH] memremap: fix highmem support

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:06:41 +0900
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [for 4.4 PATCH] memremap: fix highmem support

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> Currently memremap checks if the range is "System RAM" and returns the
> kernel linear address.  This is broken for highmem platforms where a
> range may be "System RAM", but is not part of the kernel linear mapping.
> Similar to acpi_map(), use kmap() for PAGE_SIZE memremap() requests for
> highmem, and fall back to ioremap_cache() otherwise.
>
> The impact of this bug is low for now since the pmem driver is the only
> user of memremap(), but this is important to fix before more conversions
> to memremap arrive in 4.4.
>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> ---
> Russell,
>
> I question whether the kmap fallback is needed.  This is borrowed from
> the current implementation of acpi_map(), and I added it since arm
> ioremap warns if passed pfn_valid() addresses.

I flubbed the subject line... this is for 4.3-final.
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