[PATCH v8 2/7] mm, devm_memremap_pages: Kill mapping "System RAM" support

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Tue Nov 20 23:13:00 UTC 2018


Given the fact that devm_memremap_pages() requires a percpu_ref that is
torn down by devm_memremap_pages_release() the current support for
mapping RAM is broken.

Support for remapping "System RAM" has been broken since the beginning
and there is no existing user of this this code path, so just kill the
support and make it an explicit error.

This cleanup also simplifies a follow-on patch to fix the error path
when setting a devm release action for devm_memremap_pages_release()
fails.

Reviewed-by: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
---
 kernel/memremap.c |    9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
index 61dbcaa95530..99d14940acfa 100644
--- a/kernel/memremap.c
+++ b/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -167,15 +167,12 @@ void *devm_memremap_pages(struct device *dev, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 	is_ram = region_intersects(align_start, align_size,
 		IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM, IORES_DESC_NONE);
 
-	if (is_ram == REGION_MIXED) {
-		WARN_ONCE(1, "%s attempted on mixed region %pr\n",
-				__func__, res);
+	if (is_ram != REGION_DISJOINT) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "%s attempted on %s region %pr\n", __func__,
+				is_ram == REGION_MIXED ? "mixed" : "ram", res);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
 	}
 
-	if (is_ram == REGION_INTERSECTS)
-		return __va(res->start);
-
 	if (!pgmap->ref)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 



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