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From: Alan Cox
Subject: Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 9:25 am

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:43:55 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:


On system memory mapped by the kernel which I assume is what you mean -
the BIOS is often shadowed system memory and we have platforms where
memory pages not mapped into or managed the OS are ioremap() targets.

That however is getting pedantic - I just didn't want anyone to overdo
the sanity checks

Alan
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[patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exc ..., Suresh Siddha, (Thu Sep 25, 6:43 pm)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Sep 26, 12:39 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Yinghai Lu, (Fri Sep 26, 1:10 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Sep 26, 1:12 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Sep 26, 1:35 am)
[PATCH] x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap(), Ingo Molnar, (Fri Sep 26, 2:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA iore ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Fri Sep 26, 4:14 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Sat Sep 27, 12:16 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Alan Cox, (Sat Sep 27, 4:21 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Sat Sep 27, 7:43 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Sat Sep 27, 8:09 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Sat Sep 27, 9:17 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Alan Cox, (Sat Sep 27, 9:25 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA iore ..., Ingo Molnar, (Sat Sep 27, 9:35 am)
Re: [patch] ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Sat Sep 27, 12:24 pm)