[PATCH] arm64: Remove pointless WARN_ON in DMA teardown

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Sun Oct 30 07:26:49 PDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 07:19:31PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> We expect arch_teardown_dma_ops() to be called very late in a device's
> life, after it has been removed from its bus, and thus after the IOMMU
> bus notifier has run. As such, even if this funny little check did make
> sense, it's unlikely to achieve what it thinks it's trying to do anyway.
> It's a residual trace of an earlier implementation which didn't belong
> here from the start; belatedly snuff it out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>

Queued for 4.10. Thanks.

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Catalin



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