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From: mina86@mina86.com (Michal Nazarewicz)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] mm: cma: Don't crash on allocation if CMA area can't be activated
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:34:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xa1tfved2zq1.fsf@mina86.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463193.4qGZjcvNod@avalon>

> On Thursday 23 October 2014 18:53:36 Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> As a matter of fact, this is present in kernels earlier than 3.17 but in
>> the 3.17 the code has been moved from drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c to
>> mm/cma.c so this might require separate stable patch.

On Fri, Oct 24 2014, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> That could be done, but I'm not sure if it's really worth it. The bug only 
> occurs when the CMA zone activation fails. I've ran into that case due to a 
> bug introduced in v3.18-rc1, but this shouldn't be the case for older kernel 
> versions.

Fair enough.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 14:33 [PATCH 0/4] Low/high memory CMA reservation fixes Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: cma: Don't crash on allocation if CMA area can't be activated Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 16:53   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-10-23 23:42     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-24  2:02       ` Weijie Yang
     [not found]         ` <20141024025014.GA15243@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
2014-10-24  9:54           ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-24 16:34       ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2014-10-23 14:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Always consider a 0 base address reservation as dynamic Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 16:55   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-10-23 23:50     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 14:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: cma: Ensure that reservations never cross the low/high mem boundary Laurent Pinchart
     [not found]   ` <20141024025325.GB15243@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
2014-10-24 10:00     ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 14:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: cma: Use %pa to print physical addresses Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-23 16:56   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2014-10-23 17:51   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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