netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: cpdma: remove used

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Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:56:15 +0530
From:	Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@...com>
To:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: ti: cpdma: remove used_desc counter

On Thursday 04 August 2016 08:50 PM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> The struct cpdma_desc_pool->used_desc field can be safely removed from
> CPDMA driver (and hot patch) because used_descs counter is used just
> for pool consistency check at CPDMA deinitialization and now this
> check can be re-implemnted using gen_pool_size(pool->gen_pool) !=
> gen_pool_avail(pool->gen_pool).
> More over, this will allow to get rid of warnings in
> cpdma_desc_pool_destro()-> WARN_ON(pool->used_desc) which may happen
> because the used_descs is used unprotected, since CPDMA has been
> switched to use genalloc, and may get wrong values on SMP.
> 
> Hence, remove used_desc from struct cpdma_desc_pool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>

Reviewed-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@...com>

Regards
Mugunthan V N