linux-kernel - Re: [v4 0/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU atomic allocation

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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:51:00 +0200
From:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kyungmin.park@...sung.com,
	arnd@...db.de, linux@....linux.org.uk, chunsang.jeong@...aro.org,
	vdumpa@...dia.com, subashrp@...il.com, minchan@...nel.org,
	pullip.cho@...sung.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4 0/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU atomic allocation

Hello,

On 8/28/2012 7:13 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> The commit e9da6e9 "ARM: dma-mapping: remove custom consistent dma
> region" breaks the compatibility with existing drivers. This causes
> the following kernel oops(*1). That driver has called dma_pool_alloc()
> to allocate memory from the interrupt context, and it hits
> BUG_ON(in_interrpt()) in "get_vm_area_caller()". This patch seris
> fixes this problem with making use of the pre-allocate atomic memory
> pool which DMA is using in the same way as DMA does now.
>
> Any comment would be really appreciated.

Looks fine now. I will do some tests and apply them to my fixes-for-3.6
branch. Thanks for Your contribution!

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
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