[PATCH 1/4] ath10k: provide firmware crash info via debugfs.
Ben Greear
greearb at candelatech.com
Fri Jun 6 10:06:35 PDT 2014
On 06/06/2014 02:33 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> + kfree(buffer);
>> + goto save_regs_and_restart;
>> + }
>> +
>> + ath10k_dbg_save_fw_dbg_buffer(ar, buffer,
>> + dbuf.length);
>> + kfree(buffer);
>
> Instead of doing atomic allocations multiple times in a loop, would it
> be better to allocate just one buffer before the loop and free it
> afterwards?
There is no hard guarantee that the buffer lengths are the same,
so I think it needs to remain as is. Would rather not crap out
because firmware suddenly got more clever...
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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