Re: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: protect dmm_map properly

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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We need to protect not only the dmm_map list, but the individual
> map_obj's, otherwise, we might be building the scatter-gather list with
> garbage. So, use the existing proc_lock for that.
>
> I observed race conditions which caused kernel panics while running
> stress tests. This patch fixes those.

I just heard that Tuomas Kulve is getting a lot of panics on Gumstix
Overo. I propose we apply this patch on the stable tree ASAP, and if
there's no better proposals, also on .38.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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