RE: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental changes and bug fixes

From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Date: Wed Jan 16 2008 - 17:13:54 EST




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>Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental
>changes and bug fixes
>
>> This ioremap failing seems to be the real problem. This can be due to
>> new tracking of ioremaps introduced by PAT patches. We do not allow
>> conflicting ioremaps to same region. Probably that is happening
>
>Normally if there is a conflict there should be a printk (or
>at least it was
>so in the original mattr code if you haven't changed it)
>

Yes. Printks are there. But are with KERN_DEBUG now. We should change
them to WARNING atleast.

Thanks,
Venki
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