linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] DMA: PL330: Fix mem leaks and balance probe/remove

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:33:53 -0400
From:	Inderpal Singh <inderpal.singh@...aro.org>
To:	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	jassisinghbrar@...il.com, boojin.kim@...sung.com,
	vinod.koul@...el.com, patches@...aro.org, kgene.kim@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] DMA: PL330: Fix mem leaks and balance probe/remove

Hello,

On 5 October 2012 06:17, Inderpal Singh <inderpal.singh@...aro.org> wrote:
> The first 2 patches of this series fix memory leaks because the memory
> allocated for peripheral channels and DMA descriptors were not getting
> freed.
>
> The last 2 patches balance the module's remove function.
>
> This series depends on "61c6e7531d3b66b3 ........DMA: PL330: Check the
> pointer returned by kzalloc" which is on slave-dma's "fixes" branch.
> Hence slave-dma tree's "next" branch was merged with "fixes" and
> applied patch at [1] to fix the build error.
>
> [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/24274
>
> Changes since v1:
>  - Protect only list_add_tail with spin_locks
>  - Return EBUSY from remove if channel is in use
>  - unregister dma_device in remove
>
> Inderpal Singh (4):
>   DMA: PL330: Free memory allocated for peripheral channels
>   DMA: PL330: Change allocation method to properly free  DMA
>     descriptors
>   DMA: PL330: Balance module remove function with probe
>   DMA: PL330: unregister dma_device in module's remove function
>
>  drivers/dma/pl330.c |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>

Any comments on this v2 version of the patchset?

Thanks,
Inder

> --
> 1.7.9.5
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