Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

Balbir Singh
2008-01-18T05:06:55Z

On Jan 18, 2008 7:12 AM, Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:04:03PM -0800, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > I think I found the root cause of the problem and a fix for it.
> > The fix works for me.
> >
>
> Thanks Balbir. But the appended fix is more clean and appropriate. Can you
> please check if it works.
> ---
>
> From Balbir Singh:
>
> > With the introduction of reserve_mattr() and free_mattr(), the ioremap*
> > routines
> > started exploiting it. The recent 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 kernel has a peculiar
> > problem
> > where in, certain devices disappear. In my case for example
> >
> > e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3. 5.23-k4-NAPI
> > e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> > modprobe:2584 conflicting cache attribute 50000000-50001000
> > uncached<->default
> > e100: 0000:04:08.0: e100_probe: Cannot map device registers, aborting.
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:08.0 disabled
> >
> > On further analysis, it was discovered that quirk_e100_interrupt() calls
> > ioremap(), which reserves memory attributes for the e100 card, but
> > iounmap()
> > does not free it.
>
> Fix the iounmap() to call free_matrr() unconditionally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Yes, it looks better. p->flags is always set, so the check was not doing much.
I also tested it and it works for me!

Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Balbir