linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/6] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Update driver to use GFP

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 09:25:56 +0100
From:	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
To:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
CC:	<dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] dmaengine: tegra-apb: Update driver to use GFP_NOWAIT

The tegra20-apb-dma driver currently uses the flag GFP_ATOMIC when
allocating memory for structures used in conjunction with the DMA
descriptors. It is preferred that dmaengine drivers use GFP_NOWAIT
instead and so the emergency memory pool will not be used by these
drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
---
 drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
index 35723703d4b9..2bfab8d28b53 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ static struct tegra_dma_desc *tegra_dma_desc_get(
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tdc->lock, flags);
 
 	/* Allocate DMA desc */
-	dma_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_desc), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	dma_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_desc), GFP_NOWAIT);
 	if (!dma_desc) {
 		dev_err(tdc2dev(tdc), "dma_desc alloc failed\n");
 		return NULL;
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static struct tegra_dma_sg_req *tegra_dma_sg_req_get(
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tdc->lock, flags);
 
-	sg_req = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tegra_dma_sg_req), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	sg_req = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tegra_dma_sg_req), GFP_NOWAIT);
 	if (!sg_req)
 		dev_err(tdc2dev(tdc), "sg_req alloc failed\n");
 	return sg_req;
-- 
2.1.4

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