Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:50:14 +0900 | From | Joonsoo Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: cma: Don't crash on allocation if CMA area can't be activated |
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:02:49AM +0800, Weijie Yang wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Laurent Pinchart > <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote: > > Hi Michal, > > > > On Thursday 23 October 2014 18:53:36 Michal Nazarewicz wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 23 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> > If activation of the CMA area fails its mutex won't be initialized, > >> > leading to an oops at allocation time when trying to lock the mutex. Fix > >> > this by failing allocation if the area hasn't been successfully actived, > >> > and detect that condition by moving the CMA bitmap allocation after page > >> > block reservation completion. > >> > > >> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart > >> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> > >> > >> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.17 > >> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> > > This patch is good, but how about add a active field in cma struct? > use cma->active to check whether cma is actived successfully. > I think it will make code more clear and readable. > Just my little opinion. >
Or just setting cma->count to 0 would work fine.
Thanks.
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