Is high_memory check in omap2.c for OneNAND is sufficient?

Singh, Vimal vimalsingh at ti.com
Wed Mar 25 05:58:55 EDT 2009


From: Adrian Hunter [adrian.hunter at nokia.com]
> Singh, Vimal wrote:
> > There is check for 'high_memory' in 'drivers/mtd/onenand/omap2.c', always before doing 'dma_map_single'.
> > Snippet:
> > ----------------------
> >         if (buf >= high_memory) {
> >                 struct page *p1;
> > ----------------------
> > This check seems not sufficient. There should be a check for upper boundary too.
> > Thinking scenario when 'buf' is less than 'high_memory', but somewhere near to it, and 'count' is big enough to beyond 'high_memory'.
> 
> AFAIK it is not possible to allocate memory that crosses the high_memory boundary.

Do you mean 'buf' can not cross 'high_memory' boundary?
But then I have seen a case where it was crossing that and BUG was reported by function 'dma_cache_maint'.








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