Re: [PATCH 1/2] m68k/atari - stram: alloc ST-RAM pool even if kernel not in ST-RAM

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Michael,

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:32 AM, schmitz
<schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>>>> That's not true. E.g. I/O memory is never mapped by mem_init().
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why, then, does the ioremap() of ST-RAM fail? Because the physical
>>> address
>>> is lower than the lowest currently mapped physical address?
>>
>> I don't know. How does it fail?
>
> Example:
>
> Unable to handle kernel access at virtual address 5f435059
> Oops: 00000000
> Modules linked in:
> PC: [<00089552>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x12/0x9a
> SR: 2700  SP: 0029dec0  a2: 002a42d8
> d0: 000080d0    d1: 00000013    d2: 000080d0    d3: 0007fe3c
> d4: 00000001    d5: 000000d0    a0: 5f435055    a1: 002a75ee

This may be too early in the boot process to call ioremap().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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