Re: [PATCH] Fix VMI crash on boot in 2.6.27+ kernels

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:20:06PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 17:15 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > 
> >> you can not move that late,
> >>
> >> parse_setup_data==>early_memremap==>__early_ioremap
> > 
> > How does this look?
> > 
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> index 9d5674f..4c381cb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -794,6 +794,11 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "Command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VMI
> +	/* VMI may relocate the fixmap; do this before touching ioremap area */
> +	vmi_init();
> +#endif

Shouldn't the #ifdef not be needed here if the .h files are set up
properly for the vmi_init prototype?  Please try to keep them out of .c
files wherever possible.

thanks,

greg k-h
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