dmaengine: sh: don't use dynamic static allocation
Hi Vinod,
Thank you for the patch.
Quoted 11 lines · On Monday 02 June 2014 09:48:24 Vinod Koul wrote:
dynamic stack allocation in kernel is considered bad as kernel stack is low and we get warns on few archs as reported by kbuild test robot
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drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c:671:32: sparse: Variable length array is used.drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c:701:1: warning: 'shdma_prep_dma_cyclic' uses dynamic stack allocation [enabled by default]Fix this by making a static array of 32 which should be sufficient for
shdma_prep_dma_cyclicwhich only user in kernel is audio and 32 periods for audio seems quite sufficient atm
I agree with the analysis. I'll let our sound expert, Morimoto-san (CC'ed), comment on the proposed fix. If it suits his needs, I'm fine with the patch.
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Reported-by kbuild test robot <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Vinod Koul <[email protected]>--- drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)drivers/dma/sh/shdma-base.c +9
-1@@ -657,6 +657,8 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *shdma_prep_slave_sg ( direction, flags, false); } +#define SHDMA_MAX_SG_LEN 32 + static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *shdma_prep_dma_cyclic( struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t buf_addr, size_t buf_len, size_t period_len, enum dma_transfer_direction direction,@@ -668,7 +670,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *shdma_prep_dma_cyclic( unsigned int sg_len = buf_len / period_len;int slave_id = schan->slave_id;dma_addr_t slave_addr; -struct scatterlist sgl[sg_len]; +struct scatterlist sgl[SHDMA_MAX_SG_LEN ];int i;if (!chan)@@ -676,6 +678,12 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *shdma_prep_dma_cyclic ( BUG_ON(!schan->desc_num); +if (sg_len >SHDMA_MAX_SG_LEN ) { +dev_err (schan->dev,"sg length %d exceds limit %d" , + sg_len,SHDMA_MAX_SG_LEN ); +return NULL ; + } +/* Someone calling slave DMA on a generic channel? */ if (slave_id <0 || (buf_len < period_len)) {dev_warn(schan->dev,
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Regards, Laurent Pinchart