Re: [PATCH 1/7] mips: dmi: Fix early remap on MIPS32

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023, at 19:23, Serge Semin wrote:
> dmi_early_remap() has been defined as ioremap_cache() which on MIPS32 gets
> to be converted to the VM-based mapping. DMI early remapping is performed
> at the setup_arch() stage with no VM available. So calling the
> dmi_early_remap() for MIPS32 causes the system to crash at the early boot
> time. Fix that by converting dmi_early_remap() to the uncached remapping
> which is always available on both 32 and 64-bits MIPS systems.
>
> Fixes: be8fa1cb444c ("MIPS: Add support for Desktop Management Interface (DMI)")
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
> index 27415a288adf..525aad1572d1 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/dmi.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  #include <linux/io.h>
>  #include <linux/memblock.h>
> 
> -#define dmi_early_remap(x, l)		ioremap_cache(x, l)
> +#define dmi_early_remap(x, l)		ioremap_uc(x, l)

Please don't use ioremap_uc() in new code, we are in the (long)
process of removing it from the kernel for everything except
x86-32, and it already returns NULL on most of them.

Would the normal ioremap() work for you here? It seems to
do the same thing as ioremap_uc() on mips and a couple of 
other architectures that have not yet killed it off.

   Arnd