Re: [PATCH] x86/PCI: setup data may be in highmem

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue May 28 2013 - 12:48:20 EST


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:31:51AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 May, at 08:38:10AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> pcibios_add_device() is mostly called at boot-time, when
> >> early_ioremap() probably works well. But it's also called when we
> >> hot-add devices later, and it looks like early_ioremap() will then
> >> generate warnings because "system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING".
> >
> > Oops. Good point. Is there any reason we can't use ioremap()?
>
> I assume Matthew had some reason for avoiding that in the first place,
> so I hope he'll chime in.

I have no recollection of why I did it that way. If this is all
happening late enough for ioremap() to work then that sounds fine.

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