[Issue]

Current erst driver is kicked in panic case.
On the other hand, a dynamic memory allocation seems to run in it
with a following code path.

erst_writer -> erst_write -> __erst_write_to_storage -> many of apei_exec_run 
-> 
ctx->ins_table[entry->instruction].run()

which are functions defined in erst_ins_type table i.e:

apei_exec_read_register -> apei_read -> acpi_os_read_memory64 -> 
acpi_os_ioremap -> ioremap_cache

which possibly involve IOMMU allocator.

I may cause a failure of  an erst driver if the panic happens in an interrupt 
context.

[Idea]

If we can remove ioremap_cache() from acpi_os_read_memory() as follows,
It is easy to fix this issue.
But I'm not sure if it is feasible because I can't see the reason of tying 
acpi_os_ioremap()  from a git log...

Any comment?

<snip>
@@ -918,10 +918,7 @@ acpi_os_read_memory(acpi_physical_address phys_addr, u64 
*value, u32 width)
        virt_addr = acpi_map_vaddr_lookup(phys_addr, size);
        if (!virt_addr) {
                rcu_read_unlock();
-               virt_addr = acpi_os_ioremap(phys_addr, size);
-               if (!virt_addr)
-                       return AE_BAD_ADDRESS;
-               unmap = true;
+               return AE_BAD_ADDRESS;
        }
 
        if (!value)
<snip>

Seiji
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