Re: [RFC][GIT PULL] dma-api debugging facility

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Thu Mar 05 2009 - 15:59:59 EST


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:03:38 +0100
Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> The following changes since commit 0bd5c4f7c874cf48ff7904dcf8a59988c8fea0e8:
> Ingo Molnar (1):
> Merge branch 'iommu/fixes-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/.../joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu.git dma-api/debug
>
> David Woodhouse (2):
> dma-debug: add function to dump dma mappings
> dma-debug: print stacktrace of mapping path on unmap error
>
> Joerg Roedel (16):
> dma-debug: add Kconfig entry
> dma-debug: add header file and core data structures
> dma-debug: add hash functions for dma_debug_entries
> dma-debug: add allocator code
> dma-debug: add initialization code
> dma-debug: add kernel command line parameters
> dma-debug: add debugfs interface
> dma-debug: add core checking functions
> dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_page/single
> dma-debug: add add checking for map/unmap_sg
> dma-debug: add checking for [alloc|free]_coherent
> dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_*
> dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_range_*
> dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_sg_*
> dma-debug: x86 architecture bindings
> dma-debug: Documentation update
>
> Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 106 +++++
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 +
> arch/Kconfig | 2 +
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 45 ++-
> arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 6 +
> include/linux/dma-debug.h | 167 +++++++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +
> lib/Makefile | 2 +
> lib/dma-debug.c | 870 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 1214 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/dma-debug.h
> create mode 100644 lib/dma-debug.c
>
> A few changes were made since the v3 post of this code:
>
> * new checks were added
> * stack trace of mapping path is printed
> * default number of preallocated entries has been increased to 32768 on
> x86 - in the latest tests I had more than 26000 dma-api allocations in
> the hash
> * therefore the hash size has been increased to 1024

You have not posted patches that addressed some reviewed comments. For
example, dma-debug's dma_map_sg support is just wrong:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123556055325566&w=2
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