On Wed, Aug 14 2024 at 16:11, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14 2024 at 05:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:08:23PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>> I would tend to agree and had the same thought when we found this. At
>>> least some kind of message (WARN_ON, WARN_ON_ONCE, printk, etc) would
>>> have made the issue we were debugging much more obvious. FWIW I have
>>> tested running with a WARN_ON() there and it never fired except in the
>>> bug scenario.
>>
>> Various architectures had either an early ioremap variant that got
>> silently ignored here, or magic carveout that don't get remapped at all.
>> None of this should currently apply to x86, though.
>
> So I'm inclined to have:
>
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ioremap_addr(addr)))
> return;
>
> in the x86 variant then.
Max, care to provide that with a reasonable change log?
Thanks,
tglx
