Joerg Roedel wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
and ops is NULL, then this code will oops; you will get a full register
dump and backtrace. You can use this information along with markup_oops.pl
to find out where the problem is.
You can't rely on the oops if the code runs in process context. The
process may have address 0 mapped which would result in a security hole.
We had two of these bugs last year.
That's the same problem which I had some days ago and Microblaze misses
valuable backtrace (because we don't have FP or constant frame size).
But I don't see any point in checking for dma_ops != NULL too. Any
developer would mention such a bug long before init is started.
I agree that checking adds extra cycles to every dma-api call.
I like as wrote Russel to check if ops exists or not.
Let's look at code which is there.
dma_map_single_attrs - calls ops->map_page without any checking
The same for dma_map_sg_attrs, dma_map_page
The rest of functions is ok. If any checking will be there, I don't have
any problem with it.
Michal
Joerg
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