From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:35:46 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mmc: at91_mci: don't use coherent dma buffers
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc6~68
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e385ea63f44b475e034a78b6d8bc6bb50caf72ca;p=pandora-kernel.git

mmc: at91_mci: don't use coherent dma buffers

At91_mci is abusing dma_free_coherent(), which may not be called with IRQs
disabled.  I saw "mkfs.ext3" on an MMC card objecting voluminously as each
write completed:

 WARNING: at arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:368 dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224()
 [<c002726c>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c00387d4>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x4c/0x68)
 [<c0038788>] (warn_on_slowpath+0x0/0x68) from [<c0028768>] (dma_free_coherent+0x2c/0x224)
  r6:00008008 r5:ffc06000 r4:00000000
 [<c002873c>] (dma_free_coherent+0x0/0x224) from [<c01918ac>] (at91_mci_irq+0x374/0x420)
 [<c0191538>] (at91_mci_irq+0x0/0x420) from [<c0065d9c>] (handle_IRQ_event+0x2c/0x6c)
 ...

This bug has been around for a LONG time.  The MM warning is from late
2005, but the driver merged a year later ...  so I'm puzzled why nobody
noticed this before now.

The fix involves noting that this buffer shouldn't be DMA-coherent; it's
just used for normal DMA writes.  So replace it with standard kmalloc()
buffering and DMA mapping calls.

This is the quickie fix.  A better one would not rely on allocating large
bounce buffers.  (Note that dma_alloc_coherent could have failed too, but
that case was ignored...  kmalloc is a bit more likely to fail though.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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