Re: x86: Debug warning: early ioremap leak of 2 areas detected.

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18T09:28:41Z

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> I got this when doing a test boot of a current x86 kernel under kvm.

sidenote, is this failure normal:

> acpiphp_ibm: ibm_acpiphp_init: acpi_walk_namespace failed

?

the leaked ioremap seems to be:

> early_ioremap(2fff0a10, 00000040) [1] => Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc8 #1877
> [<c04e3913>] early_ioremap+0x49/0x157
> [<c0117057>] __acpi_map_table+0x2f/0x31
> [<c0279459>] acpi_os_map_memory+0x1a/0x1c
> [<c028b4fc>] acpi_tb_verify_table+0x20/0x4d
> [<c028acea>] acpi_get_table+0x4a/0x91
> [<c04ec303>] acpi_processor_init+0x35/0xcf
> [<c04d44b8>] kernel_init+0x14f/0x2a5
> [<c0107c12>] ? ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
> [<c04d4369>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2a5
> [<c04d4369>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2a5
> [<c01089f3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> =======================
> 00000a10 + ffd40000

> Debug warning: early ioremap leak of 2 areas detected.
> please boot with early_ioremap_debug and report the dmesg.

hm, why does it say 2? I only see a single backtrace in the dmesg you
sent. ( Could you boot with ignore_loglevel to make sure you get all
printks to the log? )

Btw., did the bootup otherwise go fine? The typical nesting is at most 2
levels, and i've kept the max nesting at 4 so the typical 1-2 leaks
should have no functional/correctness aspect on the bootup, just that
warning message. Once we hit the 5th leaked ioremap we start rejecting
early_ioremap()s and that might result in boot failures.

Ingo