[PATCH v5 01/14] x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap

[Matt Fleming]

On Tue, 10 Dec, at 10:12:21AM, Dave Young wrote:
> On 12/09/13 at 04:05pm, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:42:14PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > There's a lot of sparse warnings for code like below:
> > > void *a = early_memremap(phys_addr, size);
> > > 
> > > early_memremap intend to map kernel memory with ioremap facility, the return
> > > pointer should be a kernel ram pointer instead of iomem one.
> > > 
> > > For making the function clearer and supressing sparse warnings this patch
> > > do below two things:
> > > 1. cast to (__force void *) for the return value of early_memremap
> > 
> > I'd guess this is to shut up the __iomem thing? And we're getting that
> > because we're using ioremap, ... hohum...
> 
> Yes, IMHO early_memremap really should not return __iomem pointer since it's
> *memremap*... 

This needs reviewing by at least one of the x86 folks, but it certainly
makes sense to me.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center