Hi Richard,
On 11/25/2013 04:50 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
I figured out the problem. There is zerocopy IO is being done via DMA to
a buffer allocated with valloc(). Right now, I am running a hack-fix
locally so I can get some other stuff done first. I will propose a
proper fix to the list in a
Christopher,
It sounds like you disabled zero-copy entirely, which is not necessary.
As far as I recall, loading kernel modules is the only case in which
valloc() allocated buffers are used. In the worst case, we only need to
disable zero-copy on such buffers. I have been using a small patch to
I have this bad habit of not reviewing emails until after I send them.
Anyway, Chris, thanks for your offer of help, but I can handle this on
my own. The previous email was mostly to give you an early version of
the patch and let you know what I plan to do to improve upon it before I
propose some
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:14:21AM -0800, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
Endianness issues are now consistent as per the documentation in
host/mic_virtio.h. Note that the host can be both BE or LE whereas the
card is always LE.
Memory space sparse warnings are fixed for now by using __force. This is
(2013/11/23 6:21), Andi Kleen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:22:21AM +, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from kprobes
instead of __kprobes annotation in trap.c.
This also applies __always_inline annotation for some cases,
because NOKPROBE_SYMBOL()
