linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the pm tree (and warning)

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:52:27 -0800
From:	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the pm tree (and warning)

[ sorry I've been out of town... ]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> Hello, Guennadi.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:33:29AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>> No, this isn't a correct fix.
>
> I've been looking at the code and am scratching my head about what
> happens after timeout.  If test timed out (tmo == 0), it prints out
> error message and continues to the next iteration of the test loop,
> which will reinitialize the on-stack completion.  This essentially
> makes the previous test run's callback_param pointer dangling.  The
> completion needs to be either detached from the callback or waited
> upon even if it timed out.  Am I missing something?

If the completion times out then it is almost certainly a hardware or
driver bug.  There is no facility to get a dma driver to forget a
queued operation.  The test should probably abort at that point, but
it isn't intended to be a recoverable condition.

--
Dan
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