From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1cBdWu-00082G-Gy for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2016 08:12:45 +0000 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:42:05 +0530 From: Sandeep Jain To: Marek Vasut CC: Richard Weinberger , Steve Longerbeam , LKML , Jim Baxter , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Brian Norris , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: Allocate bdi objects dynamically Message-ID: <20161129081204.GA6617@mentor.com> References: <1470319275-9465-1-git-send-email-Sandeep_Jain@mentor.com> <20161103113421.GA4873@mentor.com> <4055a3ed-c024-4c29-45e1-e600cdc5902e@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4055a3ed-c024-4c29-45e1-e600cdc5902e@gmail.com> List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Dear Maintainers, This patch is already reviewed twice with no issues. Requesting your attention for patch merge. Thanks & Regards, Sandeep Jain On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 08:22:31AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: > On 11/03/2016 12:34 PM, Sandeep Jain wrote: > > Dear Maintainers, > > This patch is reviewed by Richard. > > Requesting for Maintainer's attention for patch merge. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Sandeep Jain > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 04:41:47PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Sandeep Jain wrote: > >>> From: Steve Longerbeam > >>> > >>> The MTD backing dev info objects mtd_bdi was statically allocated. > >>> So when MTD is built as a loadable module, this object fall in the > >>> vmalloc address space. > >>> > >>> The problem with that, is that the BDI APIs use wake_up_bit(), which calls > >>> virt_to_page() to retrieve the memory zone of the page containing the > >>> wait_queue to wake up, and virt_to_page() is not valid for vmalloc or > >>> highmem addresses. > >>> > >>> Fix this by allocating the BDI objects dynamically with kmalloc. The > >>> objects now fall in the logical address space so that BDI APIs will > >>> work in all cases (mtd builtin or module). > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam > >>> Signed-off-by: Jim Baxter > >>> Signed-off-by: Sandeep Jain > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger > > I don't see any obvious problem either: > Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut > > -- > Best regards, > Marek Vasut