On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Felipe Contreras > <[email protected]> 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.
Agree that a fix should be merged asap, and I don't mind which. Especially since things have changed lately and chances that we will use this code for OMAP4 too are really small now. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
