[for 4.3-final PATCH v2] memremap: fix highmem support

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Fri Oct 30 13:19:03 PDT 2015


Currently memremap checks if the range is "System RAM" and returns the
kernel linear address.  This is broken for highmem platforms where a
range may be "System RAM", but is not part of the kernel linear mapping.
Fallback to ioremap_cache() in these cases, to let the arch code attempt
to handle it.

Note that ARM ioremap will WARN when attempting to remap ram, and in
that case the caller needs to be fixed.  For this reason, existing
ioremap_cache() usages for ARM are already trained to avoid attempts to
remap ram.

The impact of this bug is low for now since the pmem driver is the only
user of memremap(), but this is important to fix before more conversions
to memremap arrive in 4.4.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
---
 kernel/memremap.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
index 72b0c66628b6..9d6b55587eaa 100644
--- a/kernel/memremap.c
+++ b/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ __weak void __iomem *ioremap_cache(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size)
 }
 #endif
 
+static void *try_ram_remap(resource_size_t offset, size_t size)
+{
+	struct page *page = pfn_to_page(offset >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	/* In the simple case just return the existing linear address */
+	if (!PageHighMem(page))
+		return __va(offset);
+	return NULL; /* fallback to ioremap_cache */
+}
+
 /**
  * memremap() - remap an iomem_resource as cacheable memory
  * @offset: iomem resource start address
@@ -66,8 +76,8 @@ void *memremap(resource_size_t offset, size_t size, unsigned long flags)
 		 * the requested range is potentially in "System RAM"
 		 */
 		if (is_ram == REGION_INTERSECTS)
-			addr = __va(offset);
-		else
+			addr = try_ram_remap(offset, size);
+		if (!addr)
 			addr = ioremap_cache(offset, size);
 	}
 




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