From 06c10884486a63a1e4ff657aaa51e848e64b9dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:15:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: relax ioremap prohibition (309caa9) for -final and -stable ... but produce a big warning about the problem as encouragement for people to fix their drivers. Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c index ab506272b2d3..17e7b0b57e49 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c @@ -204,8 +204,12 @@ void __iomem * __arm_ioremap_pfn_caller(unsigned long pfn, /* * Don't allow RAM to be mapped - this causes problems with ARMv6+ */ - if (WARN_ON(pfn_valid(pfn))) - return NULL; + if (pfn_valid(pfn)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "BUG: Your driver calls ioremap() on system memory. This leads\n" + KERN_WARNING "to architecturally unpredictable behaviour on ARMv6+, and ioremap()\n" + KERN_WARNING "will fail in the next kernel release. Please fix your driver.\n"); + WARN_ON(1); + } type = get_mem_type(mtype); if (!type)