Re: [PATCH] Staging: TIDSPBRIDGE: Use vm_iomap_memory for mmap-ing instead of remap_pfn_range

[Ivajlo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>]

On 08.12.2013 01:49, Steven Luo wrote:
> This patch causes problems with DSP codecs on OMAP3 devices running
> Android -- specifically, when the decoder is cleaning up after itself,
> munmap() of the mapped area fails, leading to a memory leak which
> eventually crashes the system.
>
> As far as I can tell, the code with this patch applied reduces to
> (ignoring checks and such)
>
> remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
> 	(pdata->phys_mempool_base >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff,
> 	vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start,
> 	vma->vm_page_prot);
>
> whereas the original was
>
>> -	status = remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_pgoff,
>> -				 vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start,
>> -				 vma->vm_page_prot);
> We're subtracting (pdata->phys_mempool_base >> PAGE_SHIFT) from
> vma->vm_pgoff before calling vm_iomap_memory() to address the issue --
> if that's satisfactory to everyone involved, I can submit the following
> patch.
>
>
Hi,

I can pick your changes and re-send the original patch with them 
incorporated if there are no objections. Are you fine with that?

Regards,
Ivo