From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-debug: Allow archs to override check_for_illegal_area
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:54:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090812085440.GA14114@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250005381-17903-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote:
> For some architectures (like sparc32) the default
> check_for_illegal_area function does not work reliable. This patch
> makes this function a weak symbol allowing architectures to
> override it if necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> ---
> lib/dma-debug.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Dave, you indicated that sparc32 would address this problem
differently. Do we still need this patch (for .31 for example)?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 15:43 [PATCH] dma-debug: Allow archs to override check_for_illegal_area Joerg Roedel
2009-08-12 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-08-14 20:02 ` David Miller
2009-08-15 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
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