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Message-ID: <48AE7B7E.1010503@atmel.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:40:30 +0200
From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@...eus.cx>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.27-rc3] at91_mci: don't use coherent dma buffers
Pierre, Andrew,
Based on Andrew comments, I rewrite this email..
You can add my...
> David Brownell :
>> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>>
>> At91_mci is abusing dma_free_coherent(), which may not be called
>> with IRQs disabled. I saw "mkfs.ext3" on an MMC card objecting
>> voluminously as each write completed:
>>
>> WARNING: at arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:368 dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224()
>> [<c002726c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00387d4>]
>> (warn_on_slowpath+0x4c/0x68)
>> [<c0038788>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x0/0x68) from [<c0028768>]
>> (dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224)
>> r6:00008008 r5:ffc06000 r4:00000000
>> [<c002873c>] (dma_free_coherent+0x0/0x224) from [<c01918ac>]
>> (at91_mci_irq+0x374/0x420)
>> [<c0191538>] (at91_mci_irq+0x0/0x420) from [<c0065d9c>]
>> (handle_IRQ_event+0x2c/0x6c)
>> ...
>>
>> This bug has been around for a LONG time. The MM warning is
>> from late 2005, but the driver merged a year later ... so I'm
>> puzzled why nobody noticed this before now.
>>
>> The fix involves noting that this buffer shouldn't be DMA-coherent;
>> it's just used for normal DMA writes. So replace it with standard
>> kmalloc() buffering and DMA mapping calls.
>>
>> This is the quickie fix. A better one would not rely on allocating
>> large bounce buffers. (Note that dma_alloc_coherent could have failed
>> too, but that case was ignored... kmalloc is a bit more likely to
>> fail though.)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>
> ...
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Kind regards,
--
Nicolas Ferre
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