[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_asrc: Add reg_defaults for regmap to fix kernel dump

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:26:26PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:19:04AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > It's not a bug, it's not reasonable to default allocations to atomic and
> > we can't really tell what context we're in.  Anything used inside a
> > heavily locked path should either have a default provided or arrange for
> > a prior write to set up the cache.

> I've a little trouble to understand the prior write over here. Inside my
> probe() there's a register_init() call which has a set of regmap_write().
> And then the first regmap_write() results the dump. Does that mean this
> regmap_write() isn't prior write? If so, how should I do if not setting

Oh, bother.  We fixed things so that we're now always running with the
spinlock held...  never mind.

> default values here -- Some IPs may have default value 0 for registers.
> And this would make reg_defaults tedious since there's nothing special
> to assign.

Write a small script then, or a little bit of code to create the
defaults dynamically.

> And actually I remember I haven't seen any dump when I sent the initial
> patch for the whole ASRC driver but it manifested last month. I thought
> it might be a partially-merging issue and it would be fixed after merge
> window's done.....

Nothing has changed here for a while as far as I remember.
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