RE: Are media drivers abusing of GFP_DMA? - was: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC NOTES] x86 ZONE_DMA love

[Yasunari.Takiguchi]

Dear Mauro

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> There was a recent discussion about the use/abuse of GFP_DMA flag when
> allocating memories at LSF/MM 2018 (see Luis notes enclosed).
> 
> The idea seems to be to remove it, using CMA instead. Before doing that,
> better to check if what we have on media is are valid use cases for it,
> or
> if it is there just due to some misunderstanding (or because it was
> copied from some other code).
> 
> Hans de Goede sent us today a patch stopping abuse at gspca, and I'm
> also posting today two other patches meant to stop abuse of it on USB
> drivers. Still, there are 4 platform drivers using it:
> 
> 	$ git grep -l -E "GFP_DMA\\b" drivers/media/
> 	drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/ispstat.c
> 	drivers/media/platform/sti/bdisp/bdisp-hw.c
> 	drivers/media/platform/sti/hva/hva-mem.c
> 	drivers/media/spi/cxd2880-spi.c
> 
> Could you please check if GFP_DMA is really needed there, or if it is
> just because of some cut-and-paste from some other place?
About drivers/media/spi/cxd2880-spi.c,
we referred to kmalloc of driver/spi/spi.c spi_write_then_read() function and made this code. 

Regards,
Takiguchi