From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Shane <gnome42@gmail.com>,
Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
video4linux-list <video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc5 "videobuf_read_start" [drivers/media/video/videobuf-dvb.ko] undefined!
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:33:06 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197541986.4729.24.camel@gaivota> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071212231944.53f09d99@hyperion.delvare>
Em Qua, 2007-12-12 às 23:19 +0100, Jean Delvare escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:21:56 -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > What happened is that changeset 19bc5133dae9562e8824ef101464061f9854c1d8
> > fixed some bad locks.
> >
> > After this changeset, videobuf_read_stream() holds q->lock and calls
> > videobuf_read_start(). To avoid waiting forever for the lock to be
> > released, he removed the mutex from videobuf_read_start with this line
> > [1]:
> >
> > - err = videobuf_mmap_setup(q, count, size, V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR);
> > + err = __videobuf_mmap_setup(q, count, size, V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR);
> >
> > So, after the patch, videobuf_read_start() can't be safely called. So,
> > just adding EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() breaks videobuf-dvb at runtime.
> >
> > The proper solution is provided by this changeset:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=19fb1457990b6b7e15586ec7331541a184233acc
>
> There's a "static" missing in that patch: __videobuf_read_start is only
> used internally.
Thanks. It seems that I were not on my best day when I wrote this
patch....
Fixed.
--
Cheers,
Mauro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 5:20 2.6.24-rc5 "videobuf_read_start" [drivers/media/video/videobuf-dvb.ko] undefined! Shane
2007-12-12 9:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-12 11:03 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-12-12 12:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-12 14:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-12-12 16:37 ` Shane
2007-12-12 18:57 ` Shane
2007-12-12 19:44 ` [2.6 patch] videobuf-core.c locking fixes Adrian Bunk
2007-12-12 20:35 ` Shane
2007-12-12 21:22 ` Shane
2007-12-14 9:26 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-12-13 9:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-12-12 22:19 ` 2.6.24-rc5 "videobuf_read_start" [drivers/media/video/videobuf-dvb.ko] undefined! Jean Delvare
2007-12-13 10:33 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2007-12-12 10:36 ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2007-12-12 10:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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