Re: [PATCH 3/9] ASoC: Intel: bytcr_wm5102: use GFP_KERNEL

From: Pierre-Louis Bossart
Date: Thu Feb 10 2022 - 19:20:59 EST




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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[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@xxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> 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;
>
>