Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] sh: fix DMA driver's descriptor chaining and cookie assignment

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 03:03:06 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:35:11PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> The SH DMA driver wrongly assigns negative cookies to transfer descriptors,
> also, its chaining of partial descriptors is broken. The latter problem is
> usually invisible, because maximum transfer size per chunk is 16M, but if you
> artificially set this limit lower, the driver fails. Since cookies are also
> used in chunk management, both these problems are fixed in one patch. As side
> effects a possible memory leak, when descriptors are prepared, but not
> submitted, and multiple races have also been fixed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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