Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1768664Ab2KOSV1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:27 -0500 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:30341 "EHLO g1t0028.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1768590Ab2KOSVZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1353003681.2532.53.camel@lorien2> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT RESEND linux-next] mips: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error From: Shuah Khan Reply-To: shuah.khan@hp.com To: m.szyprowski@samsung.com Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, arnd@arndb.de, andrzej.p@samsung.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ddaney.cavm@gmail.com, shuahkhan@gmail.com, LKML Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:21:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1351627126.2654.15.camel@lorien2> References: <1351208193.6851.17.camel@lorien2> <1351267298.4013.12.camel@lorien2> <508ABE1D.5010106@gmail.com> <1351271198.4013.35.camel@lorien2> <508AED66.3040808@gmail.com> <1351288264.6885.11.camel@lorien2> <508B0F4B.80601@gmail.com> <1351627126.2654.15.camel@lorien2> Organization: ISS-Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1822 Lines: 46 On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 13:58 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 15:31 -0700, David Daney wrote: > > On 10/26/2012 02:51 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: > > > > >>>> On 10/26/2012 09:01 AM, Shuah Khan wrote: > > >>>>> Add support for debug_dma_mapping_error() call to avoid warning from > > >>>>> debug_dma_unmap() interface when it checks for mapping error checked > > >>>>> status. Without this patch, device driver failed to check map error > > >>>>> warning is generated. > > > > I'm confused. > > > > Your claim that a 'warning is generated' seems to be in conflict with... > > > > > > [...] > > > Got it. Thanks. I would volunteer to look at fixing all the problems, > > > but unfortunately I don't have a MIPS box handy > > > > This statement that you don't have hardware that exhibits the problem. > > > > How was the patch tested? How do you even know there is a problem? > > I enhanced the existing dma debug interfaces to add an interface to > debug missing dma_mapping_error() checks. That went into linux-next. > With this patch, when dma_map_page() and dma_map_single() are debugged > with a call to debug_dma_map_page() and the corresponding > dma_mapping_error() interface doesn't call debug_dma_mapping_error() > interface, a warning will be generated. I have been sending changes to > arch specific dma_mapping_error() routines to add this debug interface. > That is why I marked this patch RFT requesting testing. Marek, This one is for mips to go through your tree with the other arch patches for debug_dma_mapping_error(). Thanks, -- Shuah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/