[PATCH] ppc64: __ioremap_explicit() criterion change
This patch is from John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>. The function __ioremap_explicit() misses a possible (obscure) case when reserving the imalloc area for the new region. This can result in the unexpected DLPAR-add failure for an I/O slot. The failure will be characterized by a kernel message resembling "could not obtain imalloc area for ea 0x..." Here's an explanation: At boot time, imalloc regions are created for the ranges of all PHBs. Upon removal of a child slot for one of these PHBs, the imalloc region is split so that the region for the child slot can be removed. A GFW testcase revealed the following scenario. A PHB is remapped at boot for virtual address range A through C. At boot, the partition owns a slot that spans from A to B. This slot is DLPAR-removed, leaving an imalloc region from B to C. At this point, the user DLPAR adds an EADS slot that was not present at boot, but is a child of the PHB. The new slot happens to have a range that directly matches the leftover PHB range, from B to C. The existing code does not expect this, so the operation fails. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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