Re: Hit BUG_ON in dma-mapping.c:425

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 11:56:25 EST


On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:49:12PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While running mtd_stresstest on a dataflash (atmel_spi
> + mtd_dataflash drivers) I hit the BUG_ON directive that
> is at the beginning of ___dma_single_cpu_to_dev() function.
> This function is called from the SPI driver that do a
> dma_map_single() before DMA operations on the buffer
> transmitted from upper layers.
>
> It seems that this address is above "high_memory" limit because
> it is allocated by vmalloc (in mtd_stresstest.c:285)...

Well, its telling you is that you're not allowed to DMA to vmalloc
addresses. Whether that's the fault of the map driver or not is a
question for mtd folk.
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