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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6 of 7] x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the false positive should be avoided, for example by unmapping the
> > 'prev' mapping shortly before the leak check.
> >
>
> Yep. I'll make it unmap just before setting acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap,
> which is when it switches to using plain old ioremap.
>
> >> (All those other backtraces are just informational, right?)
> >>
> >
> > no, they cause hard failures in my test setup. Nor do we want to litter
> > the bootup log with messages that are not correct.
> >
>
> No, I mean that early_ioremap_debug causes all early_ioremap()s to
> dump a stack trace, so most of the stack dumps in the boot log are
> diagnostic/informational rather than indications of lots of problems.

ah - now i understand what you mean, sure. The only non-diagnostic
message that the test barfed on was the leak warning itself. The others
were there because i did a second boot with the diagnostic messages
enabled as well. (so that there's a full track of what is mapped where)

Ingo


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