With old Kernels there was a bug in x86 where any unknown memory chip type would come up BUSY when calling request_mem_region_exclusive().
So for pmem to work with old Kernels and real NvDIMM chips we have a new Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PMEM_IGNORE_REQUEST_MEM_RET. People have been running with hacked up pmem that will ignore the return code from request_mem_region_exclusive. So here it is official Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <[email protected]> --- drivers/block/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/block/pmem.c | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 635fa6a..58a2c69 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -435,6 +435,18 @@ config BLK_DEV_PMEM_USE_PAGES to other devices in the system, then you must say "Yes" here. If unsure leave as Yes. +config BLK_DEV_PMEM_IGNORE_REQUEST_MEM_RET + bool "Ignore the return code from request_mem_region_exclusive" + depends on BLK_DEV_PMEM + help + In Old Kernels type-12 Memory type which is used by NvDIMM + chips Comes out busy when calling request_mem_region_exclusive, + because of a bug. + If this option is set to "yes". The pmem will ignore the + failure, and continue as usual. If you have an old Kernel and + a real NvDIMM chip you must say yes here. + (Ignored if BLK_DEV_PMEM_USE_PAGES=y) + config CDROM_PKTCDVD tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media" depends on !UML diff --git a/drivers/block/pmem.c b/drivers/block/pmem.c index d0c80f4..ba1167c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/pmem.c +++ b/drivers/block/pmem.c @@ -172,8 +172,10 @@ int pmem_mapmem(struct pmem_device *pmem) "pmem"); if (unlikely(!res_mem)) { pr_warn("pmem: request_mem_region_exclusive phys=0x%llx size=0x%zx failed\n", - pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); - return -EINVAL; + pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); +#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PMEM_IGNORE_REQUEST_MEM_RET + return -EBUSY; +#endif } pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_cache(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); @@ -184,7 +186,8 @@ int pmem_mapmem(struct pmem_device *pmem) return 0; out_release: - release_mem_region(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); + if (res_mem) + release_mem_region(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); return err; } -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
