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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
Cc: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
	oliver@neukum.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [media] dib0700: get rid of on-stack dma buffers
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:32:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBB2E72.3030800@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1104040940000.31158@pub1.ifh.de>

Em 04-04-2011 04:42, Patrick Boettcher escreveu:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Florian Mickler wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> since I got no reaction[1] on the vp702x driver, I proceed with the
>> dib0700.
>>
>> There are multiple drivers in drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/ which use
>> usb_control_msg to perform dma to stack-allocated buffers. This is a bad idea
>> because of cache-coherency issues and on some platforms the stack is mapped
>> virtually and also lib/dma-debug.c warn's about it at runtime.
>>
>> Patches to ec168, ce6230, au6610 and lmedm04 were already tested and reviewed
>> and submitted for inclusion [2]. Patches to a800, vp7045, friio, dw2102, m920x
>> and opera1 are still waiting for for review and testing [3].
>>
>> This patch to dib0700 is a fix for a warning seen and reported by Zdenek
>> Kabalec in Bug #15977 [4].
>>
>> Florian Mickler (2):
>>      [media] dib0700: get rid of on-stack dma buffers
> 
> For this one we implemented an alternative. See here:
> 
> http://git.linuxtv.org/pb/media_tree.git?a=commit;h=16b54de2d8b46e48c5c8bdf9b350eac04e8f6b46
> 
> which I pushed, but obviously forgot to send the pull-request.
> 
> This is done now.

And I obviously forgot to pick ;) Ok, I'm applying Oliver Grenie's version and
marking Florian's version as superseded at patchwork.

> For the second patch I will incorperate it as soon as I find the time.

As it is a trivial fix, I'll be picking it directly.

> 
> best regards,
> -- 
> 
> Patrick
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-03 17:23 [media] dib0700: get rid of on-stack dma buffers Florian Mickler
2011-04-03 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Florian Mickler
2011-04-03 17:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] [media] dib0700: remove unused variable Florian Mickler
2011-04-04  7:42 ` [media] dib0700: get rid of on-stack dma buffers Patrick Boettcher
2011-04-04 16:20   ` Florian Mickler
2011-04-04 19:34   ` Florian Mickler
2011-04-29 21:32   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2011-04-30  9:46     ` Florian Mickler
2011-04-30 12:50       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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