Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] dmapool: debug: prevent endless loop in case of corruption

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On 11/13/18 1:36 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:46:35AM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote:
>> Prevent a possible endless loop with DMAPOOL_DEBUG enabled if a buggy
>> driver corrupts DMA pool memory.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I like it!  Also, here you're using blks_per_alloc in a way which isn't
> normally in the performance path, but might be with the right config
> options.  With that, I withdraw my objection to the previous patch and
>
> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Andrew, can you funnel these in through your tree?  If you'd rather not,
> I don't mind stuffing them into a git tree and asking Linus to pull
> for 4.21.
>
No reply for 3 weeks, so adding Andrew Morton to recipient list.

Andrew, I have 9 dmapool patches ready for merging in 4.21.  See Matthew
Wilcox's request above.

Tony Battersby




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