On 11/29/2016 09:12 AM, Sandeep Jain wrote: > Dear Maintainers, > This patch is already reviewed twice with no issues. > Requesting your attention for patch merge. > > Thanks & Regards, > Sandeep Jain > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 08:22:31AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 11/03/2016 12:34 PM, Sandeep Jain wrote: >>> Dear Maintainers, >>> This patch is reviewed by Richard. >>> Requesting for Maintainer's attention for patch merge. >>> >>> Thanks & Regards, >>> Sandeep Jain >>> >>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 04:41:47PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Sandeep Jain <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> From: Steve Longerbeam <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> The MTD backing dev info objects mtd_bdi was statically allocated. >>>>> So when MTD is built as a loadable module, this object fall in the >>>>> vmalloc address space. >>>>> >>>>> The problem with that, is that the BDI APIs use wake_up_bit(), which calls >>>>> virt_to_page() to retrieve the memory zone of the page containing the >>>>> wait_queue to wake up, and virt_to_page() is not valid for vmalloc or >>>>> highmem addresses. >>>>> >>>>> Fix this by allocating the BDI objects dynamically with kmalloc. The >>>>> objects now fall in the logical address space so that BDI APIs will >>>>> work in all cases (mtd builtin or module). >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <[email protected]> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Jim Baxter <[email protected]> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Sandeep Jain <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> >> >> I don't see any obvious problem either: >> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <[email protected]>
Bump? -- Best regards, Marek Vasut
