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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: eric.valette@free.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA debug trace pointing to rtl8187
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 22:21:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090506052120.GA6239@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090506133131F.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:30:47PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> CC'ed linux-usb,
> 
> The ehci_hcd driver uses buffers on the stack for DMA?

No, it should not.

But USB drivers are known to do this incorrectly.  Those USB drivers
should be fixed.

> On Sun, 03 May 2009 17:36:24 +0200
> Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > 
> > WARNING: at /usr/src/linux-2.6.22.9/lib/dma-debug.c:609
> 
> Hmm, the kernel version is wired. lib/dma-debug.c was added in
> 2.6.30-rc.

Very odd.  What specific kernel version caused this warning?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-06  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03 15:36 DMA debug trace pointing to rtl8187 Eric Valette
2009-05-06  4:30 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-06  5:21   ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-06  6:35   ` Eric Valette
2009-05-06  6:45     ` Greg KH
2009-05-06 18:02       ` [RFT] rtl8187: use DMA-aware buffers with usb_control_msg John W. Linville
2009-05-08 23:20         ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-05-09  9:38           ` Eric Valette
2009-05-09 13:57             ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 15:50               ` John W. Linville
2009-05-09 16:35                 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 21:24                 ` Larry Finger
2009-05-11 13:20                   ` John W. Linville
2009-05-11 22:23                     ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-05-06 18:03       ` DMA debug trace pointing to rtl8187 John W. Linville
2009-05-09 17:29       ` Larry Finger
2009-05-09 17:46         ` Eric Valette
2009-05-09 19:22           ` Eric Valette
2009-05-09 19:29         ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 20:19           ` Michael Buesch

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