[PATCH] ARM: ixp4xx: move fixed mapping of internal devices into vmalloc region
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Fri Sep 7 08:23:29 EDT 2012
On Friday 07 September 2012, gerg at snapgear.com wrote:
>
> From: Greg Ungerer <gerg at uclinux.org>
>
> The current fixed physical/virtual mappings for the internal peripherals
> of the ixp4xx SoC devices is using a virtual address outside of the vmalloc
> region. This results in kernel warnings like this on the boot console:
>
> BUG: mapping for 0xc8000000 at 0xffbeb000 out of vmalloc space
> BUG: mapping for 0xc4000000 at 0xffbfe000 out of vmalloc space
> BUG: mapping for 0xc0000000 at 0xffbff000 out of vmalloc space
>
> The virtual kernel memory layout lists this for the vmalloc region:
>
> ...
> vmalloc : 0xc2800000 - 0xff000000 ( 968 MB)
> ...
>
> With a little adjustment to the virtual address used we can map these
> internal devices in the vmalloc region.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg at uclinux.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Imre, Krzysztof: do you prefer to take this patch into a branch of yours
and send a pull request, or should we just apply it directly into arm-soc.
In the former case, can you provide an Ack?
Arnd
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