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SubjectRe: [PATCH] asm-generic: dma: Add BUG_ON for uninitialized dma_ops
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:48, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:08 PM,  <monstr@monstr.eu> wrote:
>> From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
>>
>> Check that dma_ops are initialized correctly. Without this
>> checking you get kernel fault and you don't know where the problem is.
>
> Oh, yes you do. PC will be of some small value.

And the backtrace will tell you where to look...

>> +       BUG_ON(!ops);
>>        BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(dir));
>>        addr = ops->map_page(dev, virt_to_page(ptr),

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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