linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions

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Message-ID: <5638E553.6050400@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:48:19 -0600
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
To:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	cov@...eaurora.org, jcm@...hat.com,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions

Vinod Koul wrote:
> Failing politely would be right thing to do. If DMA starts sending data to
> anywhere in system memory due to bug or wrong addresses we can't do
> anything to prevent that

My point is that I have a hard time believing that a DMA failure would 
likely result the driver politely detecting the problem and exiting 
properly.  I just don't think it's realistic to expect that.

Now maybe it's better for a catastrophic failure to occur when the 
driver loads instead of during some critical network operation.

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