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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/16] dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_page/single
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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:27 +0100
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 19 January 2009, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > Impact: add debug callbacks for dma_{un}map_[page|single]
> >
> > In the discussion about "[PATCH] usb/mcs7830: Don't use buffers from
> > stack for USB transfers", I have raised the question of whether we can
> > add a check for the DMA address being on the stack, I guess this would
> > be the right place for it.
> >
> > Maybe you can add another check like:
> >
> > WARN_ON(is_kernel_stack(page_to_virt(page)));
>
> Good idea. This would be the right place for such a check.
>
> > Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to define a generic is_kernel_stack
> > function. On most architectures (all that put thread_info at the top of the
> > stack), something like this should work:
> >
> > #ifndef is_kernel_stack
> > static inline int is_kernel_stack(void *p)
> > {
> > return (unsigned long)p & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1) == current_thread_info();
> > }
> > #endif
>
> Hmm, this function is indeed required on all architectures. If you send
> a patchset which adds it I will add the check for stack addresses to
> this debugging code :)

object_is_on_stack()


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