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Subject[PATCH 0/2] dma-debug: prevent early callers from crashing
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Hi Dan,

This patch series addresses a problem seen on the brcmstb ARM platform where
dma_debug_init is called by the ARM kernel at fs_initcall time, while some of
our callers using the DMA-API were running at arch_initcall time.

Unless CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is set, this is completely silent.

First patch introduces a helper function to check whether a DMA-API debug
implementation is allowed to proceed, while the second patch introduces an
initialization flag and uses the helper. A complete writeup of how and why this
crashes is provided in patch 2.

Thank you!

Florian Fainelli (2):
dma-debug: introduce dma_debug_disabled
dma-debug: prevent early callers from crashing

lib/dma-debug.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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1.9.1



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