Re: [patch 2.6.23-rc1] dma_free_coherent() needs irqs enabled (sigh)

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 04:08:11PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Russell King wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:29:05PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > > On at least ARM (and I'm told MIPS too) dma_free_coherent() has a newish
> > > call context requirement:  unlike its dma_alloc_coherent() sibling, it
> > > may not be called with IRQs disabled.  (This was new behavior on ARM as
> > > of late 2006, caused by ARM SMP updates.)
> > 
> > I think you got the year wrong:
> > 
> > 5edf71ae (Russell King      2005-11-25 15:52:51 +0000 364)      WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
> > 
> > which is due to this commit:
> > 
> > [ARM] Do not call flush_tlb_kernel_range() with IRQs disabled.
> 
> This little "to do" list item has been sitting in my mailbox way
> too long then.  Certainly since it was fair to say "last year"!  ;)

Are you intentionally not reading what I said?

> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Thanks...

That was part of the commit I quoted, not an endorsement of your patch,
though I think it does deserve an:

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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