[RFC PATCH 14/19] powerpc: allow ioremap within reserved fake ram regions
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Nov 26 16:22:19 EST 2009
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 18:09 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
> I could use ppc_md.ioremap to duplicate ioremap except for the ioremap
> ram check.
> But calling the stock ioremap without modifying it is not possible
> because it checks and bails out when ioremapping a region marked as
> ram (even if it's not real ram and it's memreserved).
>
> Is the list of memreserved areas preserved once the kernel is running?
> If it is preserved another option would be to unban ioremapping ram if
> memreserved.
Yes, check lmb's they should still be around.
Cheers,
Ben.
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