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

[Torsten Kaiser]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Joerg Roedel<joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

OK, I will try 2.6.30-git6 with and without these patches.

>> 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).

check_unmap() checks it and sg_call_ents are also optional.

Torsten
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