linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: emu10k1: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in synth_alloc

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:28:07 +0100
From:   "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Cc:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: emu10k1: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with
 GFP_KERNEL in synth_alloc_pages

On 23.01.2018 10:37, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> The function synth_alloc_pages is not called in atomic context.
> Thus GFP_ATOMIC is not necessary, and it can be replaced with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
> ---
>  sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

I've submitted a patch last Sunday that removes this whole code anyway,
see: "[PATCH 4/5] ALSA: emu10k1: make sure synth DMA pages are allocated with DMA functions".

Maciej