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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] sh: fix DMA driver's descriptor chaining and cookie assignment
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:02:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091211080254.GB7625@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912101833170.4487@axis700.grange>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:35:11PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> The SH DMA driver wrongly assigns negative cookies to transfer descriptors,
> also, its chaining of partial descriptors is broken. The latter problem is
> usually invisible, because maximum transfer size per chunk is 16M, but if you
> artificially set this limit lower, the driver fails. Since cookies are also
> used in chunk management, both these problems are fixed in one patch. As side
> effects a possible memory leak, when descriptors are prepared, but not
> submitted, and multiple races have also been fixed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-11  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-10 17:35 [PATCH 0/3 v2] sh: fix dma driver Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-10 17:35 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] sh: stylistic improvements for the DMA driver Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-10 17:35 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] sh: fix DMA driver's descriptor chaining and cookie Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-11  8:02   ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2009-12-12  2:15     ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] sh: fix DMA driver's descriptor chaining and Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2009-12-17  3:09       ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2009-12-17  7:40         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-17  8:33           ` Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
2009-12-17  8:43             ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-17 17:50               ` Dan Williams
2009-12-10 17:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] dmaengine: clarify the meaning of the DMA_CTRL_ACK flag Guennadi Liakhovetski
2009-12-12  4:58 ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] sh: fix dma driver Dan Williams

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