RE: kernel oops and panic in acpi_atomic_read under 2.6.32

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On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 01:53 +0000, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Hi, Myron,
> 
> Thanks for your work and analysis.
> 
> > This leads me to believe that the mapping for the error status register,
> > which is put in place by ghes_new(), is silently failing.  The other
> > possibility is that the mapping was un-mapped at some point.
> 
> > My current guess is that the mapping is failing due to the GAR in
> > question residing within ACPI's NVS.
> 
> The ACPI's NVS works for ioremap when used by ACPI itself.

Could you elaborate a little more.  I'm guessing by "works when used by
ACPI itself" you mean when not used in conjunction with error injection?

>   So I guess it may be unmapped some place.  One way to check that is
> to print out current mappings when we do mapping and unmapping in
> atomicio.c.  But now I am in travelling, so I can only write the debug
> patch after returning to office in about 1 week.  Do you have time to
> do that?

No problem, I can handle that.  Hope you trip goes well.

Thanks,
 Myron
> 
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying
> 


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