linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: soc: intel: bxt_da7219_max98357a: Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in broxton_audio

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Date:   Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:02:51 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Adam.Thomson.Opensource@...semi.com,
        Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        sathyanarayana.nujella@...el.com, perex@...ex.cz,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: soc: intel: bxt_da7219_max98357a:
 Replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL in broxton_audio_probe

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> It must be sleepable context as it's a standard platform driver probe
> callback.

> And now looking at grep output, only sound/soc/intel contains so many
> calls with GFP_ATOMIC.  I bet that almost all can be done with
> GFP_KERNEL, maybe only one or two in atom/sst would be conditionally
> with GFP_ATOMIC.

Yeah, it's not like it'd be the first code quality problem found in the
Intel drivers.

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