Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] dmapool: debug: prevent endless loop in case of corruption

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 12:14:43PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:22:34 -0500 Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/13/18 1:36 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:46:35AM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote:
> > >> Prevent a possible endless loop with DMAPOOL_DEBUG enabled if a buggy
> > >> driver corrupts DMA pool memory.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
> > > I like it!  Also, here you're using blks_per_alloc in a way which isn't
> > > normally in the performance path, but might be with the right config
> > > options.  With that, I withdraw my objection to the previous patch and
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > >
> > > Andrew, can you funnel these in through your tree?  If you'd rather not,
> > > I don't mind stuffing them into a git tree and asking Linus to pull
> > > for 4.21.
> > >
> > No reply for 3 weeks, so adding Andrew Morton to recipient list.
> > 
> > Andrew, I have 9 dmapool patches ready for merging in 4.21.� See Matthew
> > Wilcox's request above.
> > 
> 
> I'll take a look, but I see that this v4 series has several review
> comments from Matthew which remain unresponded to.  Please attend to
> that.

I only had a review comment on 8/9, which I then withdrew during my review
of patch 9/9.  Unless I missed something during my re-review of my responses?

> Also, Andy had issues with the v2 series so it would be good to hear an
> update from him?

Certainly.