Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: idxd: Fix list corruption in description completion

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On 15-01-21, 14:52, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Sanjay reported the following kernel splat after running dmatest for stress
> testing. The current code is giving up the spinlock in the middle of
> a completion list walk, and that opens up opportunity for list corruption
> if another thread touches the list at the same time. In order to make sure
> the list is always protected, the hardware completed descriptors will be
> put on a local list to be completed with callbacks from the outside of
> the list lock.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod



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