On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:20:07 +0100
Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:46:21PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 03:29:32 +0100
> > Matthew Garrett <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:18:48PM -0400, Don Dutile wrote:
> > > > > /*
> > > > >+ * Some devices may provide ROMs via a source other than the BAR
> > > > >+ */
> > > > >+ if (pdev->rom&& pdev->romlen) {
> > > > >+ *size = pdev->romlen;
> > > > >+ return phys_to_virt((phys_addr_t)pdev->rom);
> > > > ^^^^^
> > > > ioremap_nocache() ? ... or is caching rom ok?
> > >
> > > If it's appearing through this pathway then it's not actually in ROM,
> > > the platform has pulled it out of somewhere else.
> >
> > If that somewhere else is on the PCI bus then it should be a bus not a
> > virt translation surely ?
>
> We've no good way of knowing what the firmware's giving us - we copy it
> to RAM in the EFI init process, so by the time we're here it certainly
> shouldn't be on the PCI bus.
In which case how do you know that physical address you have been given
actually has a mapping in kernel virtual space. It seems like it ought to
be getting an ioremap in that case ?
phys_to_virt is not valid for arbitary addresses.
Alan
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