powerpc/pci: mmap anonymous memory when legacy_mem doesn't exist
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:27:21 +0000 (14:27 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:39:08 +0000 (14:39 +1100)
The new legacy_mem file in sysfs is causing problems with X on machines
that don't support legacy memory access. The way I initially implemented
it, we would fail with -ENXIO when trying to mmap it, thus exposing to
X that we do support the API but there is no legacy memory.

Unfortunately, X poor error handling is causing it to fail to start when
it gets this error.

This implements a workaround hack that instead maps anonymous memory
instead (using shmem if VM_SHARED is set, just like /dev/zero does).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c

index 19b12d2cbb4ba2e97f2aaff19f32a1eb54cecc73..0f418127231155e8c0589ab7d0c990e2851e5c7e 100644 (file)
@@ -561,8 +561,21 @@ int pci_mmap_legacy_page_range(struct pci_bus *bus,
                 (unsigned long long)(offset + size - 1));
 
        if (mmap_state == pci_mmap_mem) {
-               if ((offset + size) > hose->isa_mem_size)
-                       return -ENXIO;
+               /* Hack alert !
+                *
+                * Because X is lame and can fail starting if it gets an error trying
+                * to mmap legacy_mem (instead of just moving on without legacy memory
+                * access) we fake it here by giving it anonymous memory, effectively
+                * behaving just like /dev/zero
+                */
+               if ((offset + size) > hose->isa_mem_size) {
+                       printk(KERN_DEBUG
+                              "Process %s (pid:%d) mapped non-existing PCI legacy memory for 0%04x:%02x\n",
+                              current->comm, current->pid, pci_domain_nr(bus), bus->number);
+                       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+                               return shmem_zero_setup(vma);
+                       return 0;
+               }
                offset += hose->isa_mem_phys;
        } else {
                unsigned long io_offset = (unsigned long)hose->io_base_virt - _IO_BASE;