[alsa-devel] [PATCH 01/11] dma: imx-sdma: make channel0 operations atomic

[Laxman Dewangan]

On Friday 27 April 2012 06:40 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:31:13PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> On Friday 27 April 2012 05:03 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:26:56PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
>>>> Sure, I mean, can you doc in include/linux/dmaengine.h that
>>>> dmaengine_prep_xxx may sleep?
>>> Incorrect.  They may _not_ sleep.
>> But I have seen that we are using the kzalloc in the dmaengine_prep_xxx
>> and kzalloc is sleeping call.
> Not with GFP_ATOMIC it isn't.

Yes, with GFP_ATOMIC , it will not be a sleeping calls.
I will fix my dma driver accordingly.