[alsa-devel] GFP_ATOMIC in Intel code

[Vinod]

On 24-10-18, 09:00, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:49:27 +0200,
> Vinod wrote:
> > 
> > On 22-10-18, 12:22, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > > Looking at the latest for-next branch, by accident I saw a number of
> > > GFP_ATOMIC references.
> > > 
> > > With my extended break I don't remember much but didn't we agree that none
> > > of those were needed? If yes I'll send a patch to fix all this.
> > 
> > 
> > I thought that someone had fixed up all these instances,
> 
> Looking back at the git history, "someone" was mostly you :)

Yeah that is right :)

Jia-Ju Bai initially reported this and fixed few I did rest at that time

> A few of them below seem to be new codes that copied the bad past
> examples, some are overlooked one, and some are mailbox codes that
> aren't 100% sure to safe to replace (although I guess it is).
> 
> > looks like few
> > missed, so yes please do fix them up and Welcome back :-)

Am not sure why were they missed but yes lets fix them and keep an eye
to not get copy-pasted back in from downstream code (which i suspect is
using these and people basing these off...)

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~Vinod