Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] staging: tidspbridge - remove disabling twl whenprinting DSP stack

From: Felipe Contreras
Date: Fri Dec 10 2010 - 10:43:49 EST


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Fernando Guzman Lugo
<fernando.lugo@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Now the SHM segments are not in lock tlbs, instead
> they are in translation tables. So we cannot disable
> twl in order to get the DSP stack dump. Also add a check
> for __get_free_page allocation.

Why?

This means there's a possibility that there will be lingering entries
in the translation tables, and that the DSP side would be able to
corrupt kernel memory.

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Felipe Contreras
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