Re: dma-debug: check_for_stack background?

[Ben Dooks]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:56:29PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it took a while but I finally noticed that the DMA debug facility warns  
> about mappings of on-stack memory.  What's the problem with that?  Are  
> there architectures which don't support such mappings, or is it a  
> question of caution not to DMA-map the stack?

I'm not sure if it is possible on all architectures, however the
DMA mapping documentation prohibts the use of stack memory.

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