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firewire: octlet AT payloads can be stack-allocated

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We do not need slab allocations anymore in order to satisfy
streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to commit da28947e7e
"firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-core, firewire-sbp2,
and firedtv used to provide for 8-byte write and lock requests were
still not fully portable since they crossed cacheline boundaries or
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.  snd-firewire-lib
got this aspect right by using an extra kmalloc/ kfree just for the
8-byte transaction buffer.)

This change replaces kmalloc'ed lock transaction scratch buffers in
firewire-core, firedtv, and snd-firewire-lib by local stack allocations.
Perhaps the most notable result of the change is simpler locking because
there is no need to serialize usages of preallocated per-device buffers
anymore.  Also, allocations and deallocations are simpler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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Stefan Richter
2011-04-22 15:13:54 +02:00
parent 020abf03cd
commit f30e6d3e41
9 changed files with 30 additions and 52 deletions
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sound/firewire/iso-resources.h
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@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ struct fw_iso_resources {
unsigned int bandwidth_overhead;
int generation; /* in which allocation is valid */
bool allocated;
__be32 *buffer;
};
int fw_iso_resources_init(struct fw_iso_resources *r,