Re: [PATCH 3/6] dma: coh901318_lli: avoid unbalanced locking

[Viresh Kumar]

On 12 February 2013 16:28, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have not checked the code but there is a possibility that custom pool->lock
> is not needed at all due to dma_pool contains it's own lock.

Your viewpoint is fine, but we wanted the reason behind this patch
here. Please add appropriate stuff in only in logs.

> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> index 3e96610..702112d 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/coh901318_lli.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ coh901318_lli_alloc(struct coh901318_pool *pool, unsigned int len)
>         dma_addr_t phy;
>
>         if (len == 0)
> -               goto err;
> +               return NULL;
>
>         spin_lock(&pool->lock);
>
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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