[PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Nov 21 08:54:52 PST 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:26 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> this patchset introduces code to debug drivers usage of the DMA-API.
> Tests with hardware IOMMUs have shown several bugs in drivers
> regarding the usage of that API.
> Problems were found especially in network card drivers.

This is really useful -- but surely it shouldn't be x86-specific?

All the code except the hooks in the architecture's dma_map_single() et
al functions could be generic, couldn't it?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation



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