Re: [PATCH] ipr: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist

From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:11:29 +0100

> Don't touch the non DMA members in the sg list in dma_map_sg in the IOMMU
> 
> Some drivers (in particular ipr) ran into problems because they
> reused the sg lists after passing them to pci_map_sg(). The merging
> procedure in the K8 GART IOMMU corrupted the state. This patch
> changes it to only touch the dma* entries during merging,
> but not the other fields.  Approach suggested by Dave Miller.
> 
> I did some basic tests with CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG (LTP, large dd) 
> and without and it hold up, but needs more testing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

Thanks for doing this work Andi.
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References:
- Re: [PATCH] ipr: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist
  - From: Brian King <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] ipr: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist
  - From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] ipr: don't doublefree pages from scatterlist
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

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