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@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_32.c index ae9c8b3..4d5bea8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_32.c @@ -201,12 +201,11 @@ void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr) return; } + free_mattr(p->phys_addr, p->phys_addr + get_vm_area_size(p), + p->flags>>20); /* Reset the direct mapping. Can block */ - if (p->flags >> 20) { - free_mattr(p->phys_addr, p->phys_addr + get_vm_area_size(p), - p->flags>>20); + if (p->flags >> 20) ioremap_change_attr(p->phys_addr, get_vm_area_size(p), 0); - } /* Finally remove it */ o = remove_vm_area((void *)addr); diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_64.c index 022b645..c766327 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap_64.c @@ -183,12 +183,11 @@ void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr) return; } + free_mattr(p->phys_addr, p->phys_addr + get_vm_area_size(p), + p->flags>>20); /* Reset the direct mapping. Can block */ - if (p->flags >> 20) { - free_mattr(p->phys_addr, p->phys_addr + get_vm_area_size(p), - p->flags>>20); + if (p->flags >> 20) ioremap_change_attr(p->phys_addr, get_vm_area_size(p), 0); - } /* Finally remove it */ o = remove_vm_area((void *)addr); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html