Thread (73 messages) 73 messages, 7 authors, 2011-07-28
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[PATCH V4 04/14] DMA: PL330: Add DMA_CYCLIC capability

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <hidden>
Date: 2011-07-25 10:36:29
Also in: linux-samsung-soc

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:31:45PM +0900, Boojin Kim wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:28:22AM +0900, Boojin Kim wrote:
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+static void pl330_tasklet_cyclic(unsigned long data)
+{
+	struct dma_pl330_chan *pch = (struct dma_pl330_chan *)data;
+	struct dma_pl330_desc *desc, *_dt;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	LIST_HEAD(list);
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pch->lock, flags);
...
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+			callback = desc->txd.callback;
+			if (callback)
+				callback(desc->txd.callback_param);
On this again - what if the callback wants to terminate the DMA activity
because there's no more audio data to be sent/received from the device?
Do you mean what is happened if the callback() is called after channel is
terminated ?
Or What is happened if Callback() calls 'dma_release_channel()' to terminate
DMA?
No.  I mean what if the callback wants to call dmaengine_terminate_all().
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+	if (!pch->cyclic_task) {
+		pch->cyclic_task =
+			kmalloc(sizeof(struct tasklet_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
+		tasklet_init(pch->cyclic_task,
+			pl330_tasklet_cyclic, (unsigned int)pch);
Here you allocate memory for the cyclic task.  Above you set this pointer
to NULL.  That sounds like a memory leak to me.  Why are you kmallocing
this memory - why can't it be part of the dma_pl330_chan structure?  It's
only 28 bytes.
It's my mistake. I should have been free of the memory.

And the reason why I use kmalloc for 'cyclic_task' is following.
This memory size for 'cyclic_tasklet' is the 896 bytes ( = the number of
channel * sizeof(struct tasklet_struct)= 32*28) for each DMAC. And This
memory size is increased according to the number of DMAC.
And Samsung has the DMAC that is dedicated for Mem-to-Mem operation. If I
make 'cyclic_task' be part of dma_pl330_chan, this DMAC that is dedicated
for Mem-to-Mem operation should hold unused data.
So, I think it's loss that all dma channels hold own 'cyclic_task'.
Could you re-use the tasklet that already exists?
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