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Subject[PATCH] lib: devres: add a comment about the devm_of_iomap() function
We recently introduced a bug when we tried to convert of_iomap() to
devm_of_iomap(). The problem was that there were two drivers mapping
the same io region. The first driver was using of_iomap() and the
second driver was using devm_of_iomap() and the kernel booted fine.
When we converted the first drive to use devm_of_iomap() then the second
driver failed with -EBUSY and the kernel couldn't boot.

Let's add a comment to prevent this sort of mistake in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
lib/devres.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/devres.c b/lib/devres.c
index 6ef51f159c54b..0abe7c1cc4681 100644
--- a/lib/devres.c
+++ b/lib/devres.c
@@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource_wc(struct device *dev,
* base = devm_of_iomap(&pdev->dev, node, 0, NULL);
* if (IS_ERR(base))
* return PTR_ERR(base);
+ *
+ * Please Note: This is not a one-to-one replacement for of_iomap() because the
+ * of_iomap() function does not track whether the region is already mapped. If
+ * two drivers try to map the same memory, the of_iomap() function will succeed
+ * but the the devm_of_iomap() function will return -EBUSY.
+ *
*/
void __iomem *devm_of_iomap(struct device *dev, struct device_node *node, int index,
resource_size_t *size)
--
2.26.2
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