From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com (Santosh) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:21:25 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 05/25] OMAP4: Use WARN_ON() instead of BUG_ON() with graceful exit In-Reply-To: <20110905104755.GC6918@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1315144466-9395-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <1315144466-9395-6-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <4E64A040.4000801@ru.mvista.com> <4E64A77A.10400@ti.com> <20110905104755.GC6918@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <4E64A9AD.7030206@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 05 September 2011 04:17 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:02PM +0530, Santosh wrote: >> On Monday 05 September 2011 03:41 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: [..] >>>> /* Static mapping, never released */ >>>> l2cache_base = ioremap(OMAP44XX_L2CACHE_BASE, SZ_4K); >>>> - BUG_ON(!l2cache_base); >>>> + if (WARN_ON(!l2cache_base)) >>>> + return -ENODEV; >>> >>> Rather ENOMEM... >>> >> Nope. Even though it's related to memory, it's >> a memory controller so DEV is right. > > No it's not. The most likely reason ioremap() fails is because: > > 1. it's run out of memory for the metadata or page tables. > 2. you passed it an invalid memory type (unlikely, you're using ioremap > which uses a fixed known good type). > 3. the address was>4GB but was not section aligned (also unlikely). > > Therefore, the error code should be "out of memory" not "no such device". Got it. Will fix that.