[PATCH 2/5] spi: pl022: use generic DMA slave configuration if possible

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jan 29 08:13:03 EST 2013


On Tuesday 29 January 2013, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > +static int pl022_dma_autoprobe(struct pl022 *pl022)
> > +{
> > +	struct device *dev = &pl022->adev->dev;
> > +
> > +	/* automatically configure DMA channels from platform, normally using DT */
> > +	pl022->dma_rx_channel = dma_request_slave_channel(dev, "rx");
> > +	if (!pl022->dma_rx_channel)
> > +		goto err_no_rxchan;
> > +
> > +	pl022->dma_tx_channel = dma_request_slave_channel(dev, "tx");
> > +	if (!pl022->dma_tx_channel)
> > +		goto err_no_txchan;
> > +
> > +	pl022->dummypage = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Where this memory will be freed?
> In dependence of the answer could you consider to use
> devm_kmalloc or __get_free_page?

There is another function like this called pl022_dma_probe()
that has the same allocation, and it gets freed in the same place.

It's probably worth changing this into something different, but
I felt that it didn't belong into this patch. I was also not
sure if the best option would be dmam_alloc_coherent, dev_kzalloc,
or __get_free_page.

	Arnd



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