[PATCH 3/6] dma: coh901318_lli: avoid unbalanced locking
Viresh Kumar
viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Tue Feb 12 10:57:59 EST 2013
On 12 February 2013 16:28, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> I have not checked the code but there is a possibility that custom pool->lock
> is not needed at all due to dma_pool contains it's own lock.
Your viewpoint is fine, but we wanted the reason behind this patch
here. Please add appropriate stuff in only in logs.
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> ---
> drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> index 3e96610..702112d 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ coh901318_lli_alloc(struct coh901318_pool *pool, unsigned int len)
> dma_addr_t phy;
>
> if (len == 0)
> - goto err;
> + return NULL;
>
> spin_lock(&pool->lock);
>
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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