[PATCH 3/3] ARM: imx: mm-imx3: Free l2x0_base

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 9 14:20:46 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:16:00PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 02:58:38PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> >>
> >> After l2x0_base has been used, we should free it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> >> index 0884ca9..3143f5e 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> >> @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void __init imx3_init_l2x0(void)
> >>       }
> >>
> >>       l2x0_init(l2x0_base, 0x00030024, 0x00000000);
> >> +     iounmap(l2x0_base);
> >
> > Are you sure?  I think cache-l2x0 driver still needs the mapping after
> > that.
> 
> l2x0_base is a local variable of the static imx3_init_l2x0() function,
> so we should iounmap it.

l2x0_base is passed to l2x0_init which uses it for the outer cache
maintenance operations. I wonder this doesn't crash your kernel.

Sascha

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