Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:48:00 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: protect dmm_map properly |
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:02:44PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Felipe Contreras > <felipe.contreras@nokia.com> wrote: > > We need to protect not only the dmm_map list, but the individual > > map_obj's, otherwise, we might be building the scatter-gather list with > > garbage. So, use the existing proc_lock for that. > > > > I observed race conditions which caused kernel panics while running > > stress tests. This patch fixes those. > > I just heard that Tuomas Kulve is getting a lot of panics on Gumstix > Overo. I propose we apply this patch on the stable tree ASAP, and if > there's no better proposals, also on .38.
Um, I don't think you realize _how_ stable trees work, please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt to see how it is not possible to take something into the stable releases before it goes to Linus's tree.
Sorry,
greg k-h
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