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Message-ID: <d26561a1-ddd4-aea0-792d-efce104ad44f@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:20:53 -0600
From:   Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
        Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Jie Yang <yang.jie@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] ASoC: Intel: bytcr_wm5102: use GFP_KERNEL



On 2/10/22 14:42, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Platform_driver probe functions aren't called with locks held
> and thus don't need GFP_ATOMIC. Use GFP_KERNEL instead.
> 
> Problem found with Coccinelle.

Thanks Julia, indeed it's the only case where GFP_ATOMIC is used for
machine drivers.

This was already present in the initial Android driver from Intel (2013)
[1] and missed in the multiple passes to get this upstream.

Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>

[1]
https://github.com/lenovo-yt2-dev/android_kernel_lenovo_baytrail/blob/cm-12.1/sound/soc/intel/board/byt_bl_wm5102.c

> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>
> 
> ---
>  sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c
> index 504ef4cab111..8d8e96e3cd2d 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_wm5102.c
> @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int snd_byt_wm5102_mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	bool sof_parent;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	priv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	priv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!priv)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>