On 07/09/2010 11:31 AM, tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige wrote: > Commit-ID: 39d8c3ff39443825b6a21b28249fc4904809203f > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/39d8c3ff39443825b6a21b28249fc4904809203f > Author: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > AuthorDate: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:30:06 +0900 > Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CommitDate: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:51:39 -0700 > > x86, pae: Fix handling of large physical addresses in ioremap > > Current x86 ioremap() doesn't handle physical address higher than > 32-bit properly in X86_32 PAE mode. When physical address higher than > 32-bit is passed to ioremap(), higher 32-bits in physical address is > cleared wrongly. Due to this bug, ioremap() can map wrong address to > linear address space. > > In my case, 64-bit MMIO region was assigned to a PCI device (ioat > device) on my system. Because of the ioremap()'s bug, wrong physical > address (instead of MMIO region) was mapped to linear address space. > Because of this, loading ioatdma driver caused unexpected behavior > (kernel panic, kernel hangup, ...). > Sorry, pushed the wrong version of this patch. I will push the correct one shortly. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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