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Message-Id: <20121009140605.68b4e6c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:06:05 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: shuah.khan@...com
Cc: konrad.wilk@...cle.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
hpa@...or.com, rob@...dley.net, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] dma-debug: New interfaces to debug dma mapping
errors
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:08:06 -0600
Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@...com> wrote:
> Add dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail
> to check dma mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and
> dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by
> debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by
> the driver. When driver does unmap, debug_dma_unmap() checks the flag and if
> this flag is still set, prints warning message that includes call trace that
> leads up to the unmap. This interface can be called from dma_mapping_error()
> routines to enable dma mapping error check debugging.
>
> Tested: Intel iommu and swiotlb (iommu=soft) on x86-64 with
> CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG enabled and disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@...com>
> ---
> Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 12 ++++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 1 +
> include/linux/dma-debug.h | 7 ++++
> lib/dma-debug.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
Third time lucky ... we still haven't fixed Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt!
Please, go through it and update it to show people how to correctly use
these APIs.
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