[PATCH 0/2] fix lockdep warnings in s5p_mfc and exynos-gsc vb2 drivers

Shuah Khan shuahkh at osg.samsung.com
Mon Oct 16 07:51:20 PDT 2017


Hi Marek,

On 10/16/2017 06:48 AM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Shuah,
> 
> On 2017-10-14 01:13, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> Driver mmap functions shouldn't hold lock when calling vb2_mmap(). The
>> vb2_mmap() function has its own lock that it uses to protect the critical
>> section.
>>
>> Reference: commit log for f035eb4e976ef5a059e30bc91cfd310ff030a7d3
> 
> It would make sense to add the information about the reference commit to each
> commit message and also point to commit e752577ed7bf55c81e10343fced8b378cda2b63b,
> as it is exactly the same case here. Anyway:

I think It does make sense to add the commit information to each commit message.
I can do that send v2.

> 
> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>

Thanks.

> 
> I wonder if makes sense to send those patches also to stable at vget.kernel.org
> (maybe v4.3+, like the mentioned above commit, if they really apply?).

I don't believe they will apply as is. I can work back-porting once these get into
the mainline.

> 
>> Shuah Khan (2):
>>    media: exynos-gsc: fix lockdep warning
>>    media: s5p-mfc: fix lockdep warning
>>
>>   drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c | 5 -----
>>   drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c    | 3 ---
>>   2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Best regards

thanks,
-- Shuah



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