Re: [PATCH 1/3] media/ttusb-budget: remove pci_zalloc_coherent abuse

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 15:49:35 EST


On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 21:39 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Switch to a plain kzalloc instea of pci_zalloc_coherent to allocate
> memory for the USB DMA.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/ttusb-budget/dvb-ttusb-budget.c b/drivers/media/usb/ttusb-budget/dvb-ttusb-budget.c
[]
> @@ -792,21 +791,15 @@ static void ttusb_free_iso_urbs(struct ttusb *ttusb)
> []
> static int ttusb_alloc_iso_urbs(struct ttusb *ttusb)
> {
> int i;
>
> - ttusb->iso_buffer = pci_zalloc_consistent(NULL,
> - ISO_FRAME_SIZE * FRAMES_PER_ISO_BUF * ISO_BUF_COUNT,
> - &ttusb->iso_dma_handle);
> -
> + ttusb->iso_buffer = kzalloc(ISO_FRAME_SIZE * FRAMES_PER_ISO_BUF *
> + ISO_BUF_COUNT, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ttusb->iso_buffer) {
> dprintk("%s: pci_alloc_consistent - not enough memory\n",
> __func__);

This message doesn't make sense anymore and it might as well
be deleted.

And it might be better to use kcalloc

ttusb->iso_buffer = kcalloc(FRAMES_PER_ISO_BUF * ISO_BUF_COUNT,
ISO_FRAME_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);