Re: ensure dma_alloc_coherent always returns zeroed memory

From: Eugeniy Paltsev
Date: Thu Dec 20 2018 - 09:39:25 EST


On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 15:34 +0100, hch@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 02:32:52PM +0000, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > I test kernel from your 'dma-alloc-always-zero' branch, and as
> > I can see we have DMA peripherals (like USB) broken.
>
> I would be really surprised if that is caused by the patch to add
> the zeroing.
Me too :)

> Can you check which commit caused the issue by bisecting
> from a known good baseline?

Yep. At least kernel build from v4.20-rc4 (which is base for your branch)
seems to work fine.

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Eugeniy Paltsev