From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/nvdimm: Add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:03:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2792jq5.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190701165152.7a55299eb670b0ca326f24dd@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:10:38 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Architectures like powerpc use different address range to map ioremap
>> and vmalloc range. The memunmap() check used by the nvdimm layer was
>> wrongly using is_vmalloc_addr() to check for ioremap range which fails for
>> ppc64. This result in ppc64 not freeing the ioremap mapping. The side effect
>> of this is an unbind failure during module unload with papr_scm nvdimm driver
>
> The patch applies to 5.1. Does it need a Fixes: and a Cc:stable?
Actually, we want it to be backported to an older kernel possibly one
that added papr-scm driver, b5beae5e224f ("powerpc/pseries: Add driver
for PAPR SCM regions"). But that doesn't apply easily. It does apply
without conflicts to 5.0
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-02 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-01 13:40 [PATCH] mm/nvdimm: Add is_ioremap_addr and use that to check ioremap address Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-07-01 23:51 ` Andrew Morton
2019-07-02 3:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2019-07-04 14:23 ` Michael Ellerman
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