Re: [PATCH] dma-debug: disable DMA_API_DEBUG for now

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Sat Jun 13 2009 - 07:10:30 EST


On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:51:01PM +0200, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Joerg Roedel<joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:38:47PM +0200, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> >> DMA-API: device driver tries to free DM
> >> A memory it has not allocated [device address=0x000000011e4c3000]
> >> [size=4096 bytes]
> >
> > Hmm, looking again over the code I've seen that the ref
> > dma_debug_entries are not alway filled with all necessary information
> > for best-fit. Can you please try if you still get false warnings when
> > you apply the two patches attached instead of the one I sent yesterday?
>
> Hmm... There isn't a get_nr_mapped_entries() in 2.6.30.
> Are these patches again the current linus tree?

Indeed. These patches are against tip/core/iommu but should also apply
against current linus/master too.

> For unfilled information I wanted to complain that for non-sg mapping
> sg_call_ents never gets filled. But as dma_entry_alloc() does a
> memset() to clean the entrys it should not matter.
> And what about dma_debug_entry.paddr? Should this also be compared?

paddr shouldn't matter. We also can't compare against it because it is
not a parameter we get in the unmap path (not always).

Joerg

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