On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:10:10PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:31:13PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:

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On Friday 27 April 2012 05:03 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:26:56PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:

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Sure, I mean, can you doc in include/linux/dmaengine.h that
dmaengine_prep_xxx may sleep?

Incorrect.  They may _not_ sleep.

Vinod, do you agree? Any way, better doc it.

Thanks
Richard

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But I have seen that we are using the kzalloc in the dmaengine_prep_xxx  
and kzalloc is sleeping call.

Not with GFP_ATOMIC it isn't.