Re: [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> So i'd suggest a different, more carful approach: keep the new code 
>> you wrote, but print a WARN()ing if prev_map is not unmapped yet when 
>> the next mapping is acquired. That way the ACPI code can be fixed 
>> gradually and without breaking existing functionality.
>>     
>
> ok, i stuck in your patches into tip/master today and -tip testing 
> quickly found an early-ioremap leak:
>
> [   36.625100] calling  check_early_ioremap_leak+0x0/0x3d
> [   36.630253] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   36.634884] WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:577 check_early_ioremap_leak+0x28/0x3d()
> [   36.642811] Debug warning: early ioremap leak of 1 areas detected.
>
> find the full log below with ioremap-leak-tracing turned on. I've 
> excluded these commits for now from tip/master.
>   

Yes, that leak is expected, unfortunately.  __acpi_map_table() has no
corresponding unmap, and only maintains one mapping.  So it will leak
its last mapping when it switches over from using __acpi_map_table() to
ioremap().

So, yes, its ugly, but its guaranteed to be a single leaked mapping. 
But I'm not sure what the best approach to deal with it is.

(All those other backtraces are just informational, right?)

    J