Re: [PATCH] dma-debug: disable DMA_API_DEBUG for now

[Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:52:27PM +0200, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
>> Should there be a warning if more then one possible match were found?
>
> True. That would be better. But I tried to keep the code change as small
> as possible without disabling the feature completly.
>
>> * driver maps address 'a' with size 1
>> * driver maps same address 'a' with size 2
>> * driver wrongly unmaps the second allocation with size 1
>>   -> no warning, because the first allocation is returned
>
> Hmm, I am not sure if we can handle this situation correctly in the
> dma-debug code. There is no unique key to identify a mapping request
> which allows to assign an unmap request to it. Currently dma-debug uses
> device and dma-address. But that seems not to be sufficient. The
> best-fit algorithm is also a but fuzzy of course.

Maybe we just shouldn't try to handle it at all:

static void add_dma_entry(struct dma_debug_entry *entry)
{
        struct hash_bucket *bucket;
        unsigned long flags;

        bucket = get_hash_bucket(entry, &flags);
        if(hash_bucket_find(bucket, entry)) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "DMA-API: device mapped same address twice, "
                  "this use case cannot be handled currently -
disabling debugging\n");
                global_disable = true;
        }
        hash_bucket_add(bucket, entry);
        put_hash_bucket(bucket, &flags);
}

This would allow this feature to remain for most cased, but would also
prevent all false warnings.

Torsten