[v4 0/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU atomic allocation
Marek Szyprowski
m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Tue Aug 28 12:51:00 EDT 2012
Hello,
On 8/28/2012 7:13 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> The commit e9da6e9 "ARM: dma-mapping: remove custom consistent dma
> region" breaks the compatibility with existing drivers. This causes
> the following kernel oops(*1). That driver has called dma_pool_alloc()
> to allocate memory from the interrupt context, and it hits
> BUG_ON(in_interrpt()) in "get_vm_area_caller()". This patch seris
> fixes this problem with making use of the pre-allocate atomic memory
> pool which DMA is using in the same way as DMA does now.
>
> Any comment would be really appreciated.
Looks fine now. I will do some tests and apply them to my fixes-for-3.6
branch. Thanks for Your contribution!
Best regards
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Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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