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From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List  <linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc-atmel : fix kunmap wrong usage
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:34:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467BCFCF.6020509@rfo.atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706221237330.26363@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

Hugh Dickins :
> Aren't you just guessing there?  Those kunmap_atomics in at91_mci.c
> may look wrong to you, but they're not incorrect (so long as sg->offset
> falls within the page, as it must do here to make sense of the page).
> Especially not on ARM, where kunmap_atomic actually has no interest
> in the argument passed.  And the oops was in the flush_dcache_page.
> 
> If you actually reproduced Nicolas' problem on ARM, and verified
> that your patch then fixes it, please let us know: that will be
> remarkably interesting.

Patch tested without success. Indeed, I always see the Oops with 
Marc's patch.

> I believe I posted the correct fix last night (or at least a safe fix
> for now: Christoph Lameter may prefer to undo it and change ARM's
> dma_mapping at leisure later), checking PageSlab in page_mapping;
> and Linus has already put that one into his git tree.

Here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b9bae3402572dc50a1e084c5b1ae5117918ef0f0

> But it would be good to hear from Nicolas whether that indeed fixes
> his oops: I couldn't actually try my patch on ARM either.

Ok tested on Atmel ARM AT91 (at91sam9263), this fixes this oops.

Thanks a lot to all of you for your precise help.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21  9:30 Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator Nicolas Ferre
2007-06-21 14:54 ` Marc Pignat
2007-06-21 14:57 ` Marc Pignat
2007-06-21 15:54   ` Nicolas Ferre
2007-06-22  6:28     ` [PATCH] mmc-atmel : fix kunmap wrong usage Marc Pignat
2007-06-22 12:00       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 13:34         ` Nicolas Ferre [this message]
2007-06-22 13:46           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 14:21           ` Marc Pignat
2007-06-22 14:58           ` Marc Pignat
2007-06-22 19:00       ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-22  9:09     ` Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator Nicolas Ferre
2007-06-21 22:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22  1:01   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22  4:26     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22  5:13       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22  7:00       ` Russell King
2007-06-22  1:36   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22  4:40     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22  5:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22  5:37         ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 16:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-22 17:26         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 17:41         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 18:39           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 18:51             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 19:01               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 19:11                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 20:21                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22 22:54                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 20:15                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-23 10:40                   ` Oleg Verych
2007-06-24  8:38             ` Russell King
2007-06-24 10:24               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-24 10:51                 ` Russell King
2007-06-25  0:25                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-25 13:55                     ` Nicolas Ferre
2007-06-25 14:07                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-25 16:42                       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-25 17:00                         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-25 17:23                           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-25 18:23                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-25 18:43                               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-25 18:50                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-25 19:04                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-26 18:09                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22 20:18         ` Russell King
2007-06-22  1:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-22  4:46     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-22  5:31       ` Christoph Lameter

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