Re: warning on device removal

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 08:35:46 EST


Am Donnerstag 04 September 2008 14:20:22 schrieb Dmitry Baryshkov:
> Hi,
>
> I've got the following trace on one of my arm boards when removing
> the usb masstorage device:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at /home/lumag/tosa-tree/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:368 dma_free_coherent+0x34/0x248()
> Modules linked in:
> [<c0028fe4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c003c810>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x4c/0x84)
> [<c003c7c4>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x0/0x84) from [<c0029e54>] (dma_free_coherent+0x34/0x248)

Looks like a principal problem we have with that architecture.
Is arm incapable of supporting buffer freeing in hard irq context
or do we use the wrong API?

Regards
Oliver

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