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ARM: relax ioremap prohibition (309caa9) for -final and -stable
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... but produce a big warning about the problem as encouragement
for people to fix their drivers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King committed Oct 12, 2010
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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
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Expand Up @@ -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)
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