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Message-ID: <20081122092904.GF29705@8bytes.org> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:29:04 +0100 From: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> Cc: joerg.roedel@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:27:39PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:26:00 +0100 > Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > this patchset introduces code to debug drivers usage of the DMA-API. > > Tests with hardware IOMMUs have shown several bugs in drivers regarding > > the usage of that API. > > Problems were found especially in network card drivers. > > Especially? Have you met dma similar bugs with storage (scsi, etc) > drivers? No. For me the code only triggered network card drivers. Namely the ixgbe, tg3 and bnx2 driver. > > > This way driver developers get an idea where the problem is in their > > code. > > > > Please review and send any objections or, if there are none, consider > > for inclusion ;) > > This should be architecture independent code. Except for that, it > looks very useful. Thanks, Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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