APPLIED: [SRU][raspi2-eoan][PATCH 0/1] fbdev: dmesg prints calltrace when continuous memory allocation fails

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Tue Jan 7 13:00:33 UTC 2020


On 2019-12-11 08:15, Hui Wang wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855990
> 
> [Impact]
> When booting our raspi2 eoan kernel on rpi2/3/4, the dmesg sometimes
> prints calltrace, that is because the fb driver fails to allocate memory
> from cma, this is not critical since the fb driver could handle the
> failure of allocation.
> 
> [Fix]
> Disable the warning, then the calltrace will not be printed out.
> 
> [Test Case]
> Booting the kernel with high resolution moinitor, the fb drver print the
> log about failure of allocation, but there is no calltrace anymore.
> 
> [Regression Risk]
> Low, just disable a warning.
> 
> 
> Hui Wang (1):
>   bcm2708_fb: Disable warning when calling dma_alloc_coherent
> 
>  drivers/video/fbdev/bcm2708_fb.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Applied to eoan/linux-raspi2.

Thanks,
Kleber



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