2.6.35-stable/ppc64/p7: Badness at lib/dma-debug.c:902, Call Trace & Instruction Dump during boot

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:16:34 +0200
"Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel at amd.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:55:03AM -0400, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > I guess that this driver does a partial sync with
> > dma_sync_single_for_* API. dma-debug can't handle it properly. It's
> > likely that this is a false warning.
> 
> If this turns out to be true it is not trivial to fix. I prepare a patch
> to test for you.

I've not looked at the details of this driver, but there are drivers
that do such. So dma-debug needs to be fixed anyway; you can't assume
that a DMA address that dma_map_single returned is passed to
dma_sync_single_for API.