From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [bug] PCI hotplug, ibmphp_access_ebda: WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:182 __ioremap_caller+0x2d1/0x340()
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:29:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731112928.GC24030@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807281531.32640.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 26, 2008 6:15 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > FYI, -tip testing triggered the new warning below on a testbox. I
> > suspect it's related to recent commits in drivers/pci/hotplug/.
> > I'm wondering, why does a driver map the EBDA? That's a really lowlevel
> > thing.
>
> AFAICT, this driver digs around in there for hotplug controller
> configuration (cc'ing Greg since he appears to be one of the original
> authors). It's a custom platform driver too, that may be the only
> method available there. Is there a shadow copy of the EDBA somewhere
> we should be using instead?
not that i know of, but it could be provided i guess. Enumerating and
making all hw configuration data available reliably would be a plus i
guess.
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 13:15 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-28 22:31 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-07-29 4:26 ` Greg KH
2008-07-31 11:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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