On Wednesday, September 7, 2016 3:37:05 PM CEST Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:41:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:55:56 PM CEST Hoan Tran wrote:
> > > + ctx->comm_base_addr = cppc_ss->base_address;
> > > + if (ctx->comm_base_addr) {
> > > + ctx->pcc_comm_addr =
> > > + acpi_os_ioremap(ctx->comm_base_addr,
> > > + cppc_ss->length);
> > >
> >
> > This causes the arm64 allmodconfig build to fail now, according to
> > kernelci:
> >
> > 1 ERROR: "memblock_is_memory" [drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.ko] undefined!
> >
> > Should this perhaps call ioremap() or memremap() instead?
> >
> Hmmm ... almost sounds to me like blaming the messenger. e7cd190385d1 ("arm64:
> mark reserved memblock regions explicitly in iomem") starts using a function
> in acpi_os_ioremap() which is not exported. On top of that, memblock_is_memory()
> is declared as __init_memblock, which makes me really uncomfortable.
> If acpi_os_ioremap() must not be used by modules, and possibly only during
> early (?) initialization, maybe its declaration should state those limitations ?
I think there is more wrong with it, the driver also accesses a shared
memory area with kernel pointers using readl_relaxed/writel_relaxed,
which are only valid on MMIO registers.
I've prepared a patch, please have a look at the follow-up email.
Arnd
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