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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	jkosina@suse.cz, horia.geanta@freescale.com,
	computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] dma-debug: prevent early callers from crashing
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:31:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415939462-28174-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Dan,

This patch series addresses a problem seen on the brcmstb ARM platform where
dma_debug_init is called by the ARM kernel at fs_initcall time, while some of
our callers using the DMA-API were running at arch_initcall time.

Unless CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is set, this is completely silent.

First patch introduces a helper function to check whether a DMA-API debug
implementation is allowed to proceed, while the second patch introduces an
initialization flag and uses the helper. A complete writeup of how and why this
crashes is provided in patch 2.

Thank you!

Florian Fainelli (2):
  dma-debug: introduce dma_debug_disabled
  dma-debug: prevent early callers from crashing

 lib/dma-debug.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.1


             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14  4:31 Florian Fainelli [this message]
2014-11-14  4:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] dma-debug: introduce dma_debug_disabled Florian Fainelli
2014-11-14  4:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] dma-debug: prevent early callers from crashing Florian Fainelli
2014-11-15  2:02   ` Florian Fainelli

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