[PATCH RFC] OMAP: serial: Release the claimed memory region in remove

Menon, Nishanth nm at ti.com
Fri Feb 10 10:23:04 EST 2012


On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 23:58, Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti at ti.com> wrote:
> Currently the memory region is not released the folowing error is
> observed.
>
> /testsuites # insmod omap-serial.ko
> [  130.746917] omap_uart omap_uart.0: memory region already claimed
> [  130.753143] omap_uart: probe of omap_uart.0 failed with error -16
> [  130.759338] omap_uart omap_uart.1: memory region already claimed
> [  130.765380] omap_uart: probe of omap_uart.1 failed with error -16
> [  130.771606] omap_uart omap_uart.2: memory region already claimed
> [  130.777679] omap_uart: probe of omap_uart.2 failed with error -16
> [  130.783905] omap_uart omap_uart.3: memory region already claimed
> [  130.789947] omap_uart: probe of omap_uart.3 failed with error -16
>
> Fix it by releasing the memory region.
>
> Cc: Govindraj.R <govindraj.raja at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti at ti.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> index 130f7f8..4def6c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> @@ -1480,6 +1480,10 @@ do_release_region:
>  static int serial_omap_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>  {
>        struct uart_omap_port *up = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
> +       struct resource         *r;
> +
> +       r = platform_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> +       release_mem_region(r->start, resource_size(r));
if this is the same region which ioremapped to up->port.membase, then
please release mem region after the unmap.
Regards,
Nishanth Menon

>
>        if (up) {
>                iounmap(up->port.membase);
> --
> 1.7.1
>
>
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