Hi, Please ignore my previous mail, my mailer wrongly formatted it with html tags and it got filtered out from the lists. Firstly: This has to get in quickly if it shouldn't miss 3.3 (again). Tiny adjustings (I don't see any, beside the issue Bjorn brought up) can still be done later, but I guess this rather big one gets rejected by Linus after the merge window closed. Here again: On Saturday, January 21, 2012 09:38:27 PM Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > +cc Tony, linux-ia64 > ... > >> { > >> @@ -353,7 +385,7 @@ acpi_os_map_memory(acpi_physical_address phys, acpi_size size) > >> > >> pg_off = round_down(phys, PAGE_SIZE); > >> pg_sz = round_up(phys + size, PAGE_SIZE) - pg_off; > >> - virt = acpi_os_ioremap(pg_off, pg_sz); > >> + virt = acpi_map(pg_off, pg_sz); Ok, that worked before, also on IA64. That means that typically/normally/always io mem is tried to be mapped. It's due to the new APEI infrastructure/features that ram could get mapped via acpi_os_map_memory. Is there any Itanium out there implementing any APEI table? Will there ever be one? Even if, isn't it a BIOS bug if such stuff is declared in ram and not in reserved memory (also on X86)? Especially on an Enterprise Itanium platform, I guess the vendor should or better has to fix it up. I'd do: can_use_ioremap(pfn) instead of should_use_kmap(pfn) and let it return false in ram + ia64 case, something like: #ifdef IA64 #define can_use_ioremap(pfn) !page_is_ram(pfn) #endif Pass the error upwards and APEI should get disabled on IA64, if any ACPI code tries to ioremap real memory early (when the APEI table parsing happens). A nice FW_BUG message could be added as well (also on X86?). Don't forget to use: iounmap(vaddr); only in acpi_unmap() then. FWIW I even grepped for APEI tables on the most recent IA machine we have -> no APEI tables. If the rest is functionally the same as the patch series you've send some months ago, feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> I had a rather close look at those patches. Thomas -- 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