[PATCH 05/25] OMAP4: Use WARN_ON() instead of BUG_ON() with graceful exit

[Santosh]

On Monday 05 September 2011 04:17 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:02PM +0530, Santosh wrote:
>> On Monday 05 September 2011 03:41 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

[..]

>>>> /* Static mapping, never released */
>>>> l2cache_base = ioremap(OMAP44XX_L2CACHE_BASE, SZ_4K);
>>>> - BUG_ON(!l2cache_base);
>>>> + if (WARN_ON(!l2cache_base))
>>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>>
>>> Rather ENOMEM...
>>>
>> Nope. Even though it's related to memory, it's
>> a memory controller so DEV is right.
>
> No it's not.  The most likely reason ioremap() fails is because:
>
> 1. it's run out of memory for the metadata or page tables.
> 2. you passed it an invalid memory type (unlikely, you're using ioremap
>     which uses a fixed known good type).
> 3. the address was>4GB but was not section aligned (also unlikely).
>
> Therefore, the error code should be "out of memory" not "no such device".
Got it. Will fix that.