linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma/direct: turn ARCH_ZONE_DMA

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20191031165853.GA8532@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:58:53 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/direct: turn ARCH_ZONE_DMA_BITS into a variable

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> OK, I see what you mean now. It's wrong indeed.
> 
> The trouble is the ZONE_DMA series[1] in arm64, also due for v5.5, will be
> affected by this patch. I don't know the right way to approach this problem
> since depending on the merge order, this patch should be updated or the arm64
> ZONE_DMA series fixed.
> 
> Maybe it's easier to just wait for v5.6.

Ok, I can wait.  Or the arm64 maintainers can pick up this patch if
you want to add it to that series.