From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753193AbeBEQtq (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:49:46 -0500 Received: from esa4.dell-outbound.iphmx.com ([68.232.149.214]:56083 "EHLO esa4.dell-outbound.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752986AbeBEQth (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:49:37 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F/AAADinhamGOa6ERdGQEBAQEBAQEBA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQcBAQEBAYQngQAoCoNbmFKCAokTkE0KhTsCGoIzWBQBAQEBAQEBAQIBAhA?= =?us-ascii?q?BAQEBAQgLCwYoL4I4IoJKAQEBBCMRRQwEAgEIEQQBAQECAiMDAgICHyUBCAgCB?= =?us-ascii?q?AENBQiKFQMVvzSCJ4c2DYExgXgBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEdgQ+DW4I?= =?us-ascii?q?Vgz+DLoJrRASBdhAjgl2CZQWjZz6QFVWEfoJKkXaONIlCgTw2gXNwgxiCZSWBb?= =?us-ascii?q?XiNX4EXAQEB?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F/AAADinhamGOa6ERdGQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQcBAQEBAYQ?= =?us-ascii?q?ngQAoCoNbmFKCAokTkE0KhTsCGoIzWBQBAQEBAQEBAQIBAhABAQEBAQgLCwYoL?= =?us-ascii?q?4I4IoJKAQEBBCMRRQwEAgEIEQQBAQECAiMDAgICHyUBCAgCBAENBQiKFQMVvzS?= =?us-ascii?q?CJ4c2DYExgXgBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEdgQ+DW4IVgz+DLoJrRASBd?= =?us-ascii?q?hAjgl2CZQWjZz6QFVWEfoJKkXaONIlCgTw2gXNwgxiCZSWBbXiNX4EXAQEB?= From: X-LoopCount0: from 10.166.132.172 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,465,1511848800"; d="scan'208";a="125730741" X-DLP: DLP_GlobalPCIDSS To: , CC: , , Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally Thread-Topic: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than globally Thread-Index: AQHTnbEBZ5a/3jHsuUK3gXwyW5b5oKOUseSAgAFVFtA= Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:49:35 +0000 Message-ID: <9b01161fb81043b79cf9ade8ec348fff@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <1517420855-19374-1-git-send-email-mario.limonciello@dell.com> <20180204120922.fds52i22griw2h6e@pali> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.143.242.75] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail.home.local id w15GoFTJ022361 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Shevchenko [mailto:andy.shevchenko@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:28 AM > To: Pali Rohár > Cc: Limonciello, Mario ; Darren Hart > ; LKML ; Platform Driver > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather > than globally > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 January 2018 11:47:35 Mario Limonciello wrote: > >> There is no longer a need for the buffer to be defined in > >> first 4GB physical address space. > >> > >> Furthermore there may be race conditions with multiple different functions > >> working on a module wide buffer causing incorrect results. > >> > >> Fixes: 549b4930f057658dc50d8010e66219233119a4d8 > > He-h, I had to notice this earlier... > > > Ok, you can add my: > > Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár > > Thanks and sorry, Pali, it's in for-next already, can't rebase. Andy, Since it's already in for-next it's probably too late to add the stable CC too right? So what's the proper time now to send this to @stable? And should I just forward existing patch? Thanks,