ARM: relax ioremap prohibition (309caa9) for -final and -stable
... but produce a big warning about the problem as encouragement
for people to fix their drivers.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
index ab50627..17e7b0b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -204,8 +204,12 @@
/*
* Don't allow RAM to be mapped - this causes problems with ARMv6+
*/
- if (WARN_ON(pfn_valid(pfn)))
- return NULL;
+ if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "BUG: Your driver calls ioremap() on system memory. This leads\n"
+ KERN_WARNING "to architecturally unpredictable behaviour on ARMv6+, and ioremap()\n"
+ KERN_WARNING "will fail in the next kernel release. Please fix your driver.\n");
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ }
type = get_mem_type(mtype);
if (!type)