linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: heaps: Initialize during core instead of subsys

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Message-ID: <CALAqxLUHYUkyCR7cFoLH89X_yrC3BMqc64iQoUiPyN5UqnYnvA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:23:50 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>,
        Liam Mark <lmark@...eaurora.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: heaps: Initialize during core instead of subsys

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 3:18 PM Andrew F. Davis <afd@...com> wrote:
>
> Some clients of DMA-Heaps probe earlier than subsys_initcall(), this
> can cause issues when these clients call dma_heap_add() before the
> core DMA-Heaps framework has initialized. DMA-Heaps should initialize
> during core startup to get ahead of all users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@...com>

No objection from me right off.

Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>

thanks
-john