From: "Cooper Jr., Franklin" <[email protected]> Based on DMA documentation and testing using high memory buffer when doing dma transfers can lead to various issues including kernel panics.
To workaround this simply use cpu copy. Signed-off-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <[email protected]> --- drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c index 762e0ed..8d0ae3a 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/omap2.c @@ -467,17 +467,8 @@ static inline int omap_nand_dma_transfer(struct mtd_info *mtd, void *addr, int ret; u32 val; - if (addr >= high_memory) { - struct page *p1; - - if (((size_t)addr & PAGE_MASK) != - ((size_t)(addr + len - 1) & PAGE_MASK)) - goto out_copy; - p1 = vmalloc_to_page(addr); - if (!p1) - goto out_copy; - addr = page_address(p1) + ((size_t)addr & ~PAGE_MASK); - } + if (!virt_addr_valid(addr)) + goto out_copy; sg_init_one(&sg, addr, len); n = dma_map_sg(info->dma->device->dev, &sg, 1, dir); -- 2.7.0
