linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] at73c213: Fix DMA size at the end of DMA buffer

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:44:45 +0100
From:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@...el.com>,
	Andrew Victor <avictor.za@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] at73c213: Fix DMA size at the end of DMA buffer

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:43:06 +0900 (JST)
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp> wrote:

> +		size = runtime->period_size * runtime->channels;
> +		if (next_period == runtime->periods - 1)
> +			size += (runtime->buffer_size % runtime->period_size)
> +				* runtime->channels;

Ow. That looks expensive. Isn't there any way we can force the client
to select sane values of buffer_size and period_size?

It seems like a reasonable demand that buffer_size is a multiple of
period_size, doesn't it?

Haavard
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