netdev - Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: nokia: disallow compilation with HIGHMEM

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Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:39:11 +0200
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	ext-eero.nurkkala@...ia.com
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: nokia: disallow compilation with HIGHMEM

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 09:30:45 ext-eero.nurkkala@...ia.com, you wrote:
> From: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@...ia.com>
> 
> With HIGHMEM, g_phonet oopses with the following path:
> pn_rx_complete() -> pskb_pull() -> ... kmap_skb_frag() and
> oops with BUG_ON(in_irq()). Thus, if the gadget is enabled,
> it'd better conflict with the HIGHMEM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@...ia.com>

Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>


In the long run, we should probably kludge the skb code like we did in
cdc-phonet.c.

Or better yet, fix kmap_skb_frag() to be less pessimistic. Thing is, the BUG_ON 
is really bogus here. The way we allocated the skb, the fragment really cannot 
be in HIGHMEM...

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki
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