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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/firewire/core-card.c, branch v3.10.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T19:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T19:57:47+00:00</published>
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Pull IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem updates from Stefan Richter:

 - Fix mismatch between DMA mapping direction (was wrong) and DMA
   synchronization direction (was correct) of isochronous reception
   buffers of userspace drivers if vma-mapped for R/W access.  For
   example, libdc1394 was affected.

 - more consistent retry stategy in device discovery/ rediscovery, and
   improved failure diagnostics

 - various small cleanups, e.g. use SCSI layer's DMA mapping API in
   firewire-sbp2

* tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: sbp2: document the absence of alignment requirements
  firewire: sbp2: remove superfluous blk_queue_max_segment_size() call
  firewire: sbp2: use scsi_dma_(un)map
  firewire: sbp2: give correct DMA device to scsi framework
  firewire: core: fw_device_refresh(): clean up error handling
  firewire: core: log config rom reading errors
  firewire: core: log error in case of failed bus manager lock
  firewire: move rcode_string() to core
  firewire: core: improve reread_config_rom() interface
  firewire: core: wait for inaccessible devices after bus reset
  firewire: ohci: omit spinlock IRQ flags where possible
  firewire: ohci: correct signedness of a local variable
  firewire: core: fix DMA mapping direction
  firewire: use module_pci_driver
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Pull IEEE 1394 (FireWire) subsystem updates from Stefan Richter:

 - Fix mismatch between DMA mapping direction (was wrong) and DMA
   synchronization direction (was correct) of isochronous reception
   buffers of userspace drivers if vma-mapped for R/W access.  For
   example, libdc1394 was affected.

 - more consistent retry stategy in device discovery/ rediscovery, and
   improved failure diagnostics

 - various small cleanups, e.g. use SCSI layer's DMA mapping API in
   firewire-sbp2

* tag 'firewire-updates' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
  firewire: sbp2: document the absence of alignment requirements
  firewire: sbp2: remove superfluous blk_queue_max_segment_size() call
  firewire: sbp2: use scsi_dma_(un)map
  firewire: sbp2: give correct DMA device to scsi framework
  firewire: core: fw_device_refresh(): clean up error handling
  firewire: core: log config rom reading errors
  firewire: core: log error in case of failed bus manager lock
  firewire: move rcode_string() to core
  firewire: core: improve reread_config_rom() interface
  firewire: core: wait for inaccessible devices after bus reset
  firewire: ohci: omit spinlock IRQ flags where possible
  firewire: ohci: correct signedness of a local variable
  firewire: core: fix DMA mapping direction
  firewire: use module_pci_driver
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<entry>
<title>firewire: Move fw_card kref functions into linux/firewire.h</title>
<updated>2012-05-09T22:25:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Boot</name>
<email>bootc@bootc.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-01T22:36:02+00:00</published>
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When writing a firewire driver that doesn't deal with struct fw_device
objects (e.g. it only publishes FireWire units and doesn't subscribe to
them), you likely need to keep referenced to struct fw_card objects so
that you can send messages to other nodes. This patch moves
fw_card_put(), fw_card_get() and fw_card_release() into the public
include/linux/firewire.h header instead of drivers/firewire/core.h, and
adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release).

The firewire-sbp-target module requires these so it can keep a reference
to the fw_card object in order that it can fetch ORBs to execute and
read/write related data and status information.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Acked-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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When writing a firewire driver that doesn't deal with struct fw_device
objects (e.g. it only publishes FireWire units and doesn't subscribe to
them), you likely need to keep referenced to struct fw_card objects so
that you can send messages to other nodes. This patch moves
fw_card_put(), fw_card_get() and fw_card_release() into the public
include/linux/firewire.h header instead of drivers/firewire/core.h, and
adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fw_card_release).

The firewire-sbp-target module requires these so it can keep a reference
to the fw_card object in order that it can fetch ORBs to execute and
read/write related data and status information.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Acked-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: log error in case of failed bus manager lock</title>
<updated>2012-04-17T20:56:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-11T15:38:47+00:00</published>
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If the lock access to the bus manager register fails, also log the
actual error that caused it to fail.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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If the lock access to the bus manager register fails, also log the
actual error that caused it to fail.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: allow explicit flushing of iso packet completions</title>
<updated>2012-03-18T21:15:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-18T18:06:39+00:00</published>
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Extend the kernel and userspace APIs to allow reporting all currently
completed isochronous packets, even if the next interrupt packet has not
yet been reached.  This is required to determine the status of the
packets at the end of a paused or stopped stream, and useful for more
precise synchronization of audio streams.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Extend the kernel and userspace APIs to allow reporting all currently
completed isochronous packets, even if the next interrupt packet has not
yet been reached.  This is required to determine the status of the
packets at the end of a paused or stopped stream, and useful for more
precise synchronization of audio streams.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: prefix log messages with card name</title>
<updated>2012-02-22T21:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-18T21:03:14+00:00</published>
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Associate all log messages from firewire-core with the respective card
because some people have more than one card.  E.g.
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800
turns into
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core 0000:05:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800

This increases the module size slightly; to keep this in check, turn the
former printk wrapper macros into functions.  Their implementation is
largely copied from driver core's dev_printk counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Associate all log messages from firewire-core with the respective card
because some people have more than one card.  E.g.
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800
turns into
    firewire_ohci 0000:04:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_ohci 0000:05:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 0814438400000389, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: phy config: new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
    firewire_core 0000:05:00.0: created device fw1: GUID 0814438400000388, S800
    firewire_core 0000:04:00.0: created device fw2: GUID 0001d202e06800d1, S800

This increases the module size slightly; to keep this in check, turn the
former printk wrapper macros into functions.  Their implementation is
largely copied from driver core's dev_printk counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>atomic: use &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-26T23:09:06+00:00</published>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: sbp2: parallelize login, reconnect, logout</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-01T18:50:31+00:00</published>
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The struct sbp2_logical_unit.work items can all be executed in parallel
but are not reentrant.  Furthermore, reconnect or re-login work must be
executed in a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue.

Hence replace the old single-threaded firewire-sbp2 workqueue by a
concurrency-managed but non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer.
firewire-core already maintains one, hence use this one.

In earlier versions of this change, I observed occasional failures of
parallel INQUIRY to an Initio INIC-2430 FireWire 800 to dual IDE bridge.
More testing indicates that parallel INQUIRY is not actually a problem,
but too quick successions of logout and login + INQUIRY, e.g. a quick
sequence of cable plugout and plugin, can result in failed INQUIRY.
This does not seem to be something that should or could be addressed by
serialization.

Another dual-LU device to which I currently have access to, an
OXUF924DSB FireWire 800 to dual SATA bridge with firmware from MacPower,
has been successfully tested with this too.

This change is beneficial to environments with two or more FireWire
storage devices, especially if they are located on the same bus.
Management tasks that should be performed as soon and as quickly as
possible, especially reconnect, are no longer held up by tasks on other
devices that may take a long time, especially login with INQUIRY and sd
or sr driver probe.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The struct sbp2_logical_unit.work items can all be executed in parallel
but are not reentrant.  Furthermore, reconnect or re-login work must be
executed in a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue.

Hence replace the old single-threaded firewire-sbp2 workqueue by a
concurrency-managed but non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer.
firewire-core already maintains one, hence use this one.

In earlier versions of this change, I observed occasional failures of
parallel INQUIRY to an Initio INIC-2430 FireWire 800 to dual IDE bridge.
More testing indicates that parallel INQUIRY is not actually a problem,
but too quick successions of logout and login + INQUIRY, e.g. a quick
sequence of cable plugout and plugin, can result in failed INQUIRY.
This does not seem to be something that should or could be addressed by
serialization.

Another dual-LU device to which I currently have access to, an
OXUF924DSB FireWire 800 to dual SATA bridge with firmware from MacPower,
has been successfully tested with this too.

This change is beneficial to environments with two or more FireWire
storage devices, especially if they are located on the same bus.
Management tasks that should be performed as soon and as quickly as
possible, especially reconnect, are no longer held up by tasks on other
devices that may take a long time, especially login with INQUIRY and sd
or sr driver probe.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: core: use non-reentrant workqueue with rescuer</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-13T11:39:46+00:00</published>
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firewire-core manages the following types of work items:

fw_card.br_work:
  - resets the bus on a card and possibly sends a PHY packet before that
  - does not sleep for long or not at all
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bus_reset() by
      - firewire-ohci's pci_probe method
      - firewire-ohci's set_config_rom method, called by kernelspace
        protocol drivers and userspace drivers which add/remove
	Configuration ROM descriptors
      - userspace drivers which use the bus reset ioctl
      - itself if the last reset happened less than 2 seconds ago

fw_card.bm_work:
  - performs bus management duties
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bm_work() by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances whenever the root node
        device was (successfully or unsuccessfully) discovered,
	refreshed, or rediscovered
      - itself in case of resource allocation failures or in order to
        obey the 125ms bus manager arbitration interval

fw_device.work:
  - performs node probe, update, shutdown, revival, removal; including
    kernel driver probe, update, shutdown and bus reset notification to
    userspace drivers
  - usually sleeps moderately long, in corner cases very long
  - is scheduled by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet via the
        core's fw_node_event
      - firewire-ohci's pci_remove method via core's fw_destroy_nodes/
        fw_node_event
      - itself during retries, e.g. while a node is powering up

iso_resource.work:
  - accesses registers at the Isochronous Resource Manager node
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via schedule_iso_resource() by
      - the owning userspace driver at addition and removal of the
        resource
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances after bus reset
      - itself in case of resource allocation if necessary to obey the
        1000ms reallocation period after bus reset

fw_card.br_work instances should not, and instances of the others must
not, be executed in parallel by multiple CPUs -- but were not protected
against that.  Hence allocate a non-reentrant workqueue for them.

fw_device.work may be used in the memory reclaim path in case of SBP-2
device updates.  Hence we need a workqueue with rescuer and cannot use
system_nrt_wq.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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firewire-core manages the following types of work items:

fw_card.br_work:
  - resets the bus on a card and possibly sends a PHY packet before that
  - does not sleep for long or not at all
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bus_reset() by
      - firewire-ohci's pci_probe method
      - firewire-ohci's set_config_rom method, called by kernelspace
        protocol drivers and userspace drivers which add/remove
	Configuration ROM descriptors
      - userspace drivers which use the bus reset ioctl
      - itself if the last reset happened less than 2 seconds ago

fw_card.bm_work:
  - performs bus management duties
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via fw_schedule_bm_work() by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances whenever the root node
        device was (successfully or unsuccessfully) discovered,
	refreshed, or rediscovered
      - itself in case of resource allocation failures or in order to
        obey the 125ms bus manager arbitration interval

fw_device.work:
  - performs node probe, update, shutdown, revival, removal; including
    kernel driver probe, update, shutdown and bus reset notification to
    userspace drivers
  - usually sleeps moderately long, in corner cases very long
  - is scheduled by
      - firewire-ohci's self-ID-complete IRQ handler tasklet via the
        core's fw_node_event
      - firewire-ohci's pci_remove method via core's fw_destroy_nodes/
        fw_node_event
      - itself during retries, e.g. while a node is powering up

iso_resource.work:
  - accesses registers at the Isochronous Resource Manager node
  - usually does not (but may in corner cases) sleep for long
  - is scheduled via schedule_iso_resource() by
      - the owning userspace driver at addition and removal of the
        resource
      - firewire-core's fw_device.work instances after bus reset
      - itself in case of resource allocation if necessary to obey the
        1000ms reallocation period after bus reset

fw_card.br_work instances should not, and instances of the others must
not, be executed in parallel by multiple CPUs -- but were not protected
against that.  Hence allocate a non-reentrant workqueue for them.

fw_device.work may be used in the memory reclaim path in case of SBP-2
device updates.  Hence we need a workqueue with rescuer and cannot use
system_nrt_wq.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firewire: optimize iso queueing by setting wake only after the last packet</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Clemens Ladisch</name>
<email>clemens@ladisch.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-02T07:33:56+00:00</published>
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When queueing iso packets, the run time is dominated by the two
MMIO accesses that set the DMA context's wake bit.  Because most
drivers submit packets in batches, we can save much time by
removing all but the last wakeup.

The internal kernel API is changed to require a call to
fw_iso_context_queue_flush() after a batch of queued packets.
The user space API does not change, so one call to
FW_CDEV_IOC_QUEUE_ISO must specify multiple packets to take
advantage of this optimization.

In my measurements, this patch reduces the time needed to queue
fifty skip packets from userspace to one sixth on a 2.5 GHz CPU,
or to one third at 800 MHz.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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When queueing iso packets, the run time is dominated by the two
MMIO accesses that set the DMA context's wake bit.  Because most
drivers submit packets in batches, we can save much time by
removing all but the last wakeup.

The internal kernel API is changed to require a call to
fw_iso_context_queue_flush() after a batch of queued packets.
The user space API does not change, so one call to
FW_CDEV_IOC_QUEUE_ISO must specify multiple packets to take
advantage of this optimization.

In my measurements, this patch reduces the time needed to queue
fifty skip packets from userspace to one sixth on a 2.5 GHz CPU,
or to one third at 800 MHz.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<title>firewire: octlet AT payloads can be stack-allocated</title>
<updated>2011-05-10T20:53:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
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<published>2011-04-22T13:13:54+00:00</published>
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We do not need slab allocations anymore in order to satisfy
streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to commit da28947e7e36
"firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-core, firewire-sbp2,
and firedtv used to provide for 8-byte write and lock requests were
still not fully portable since they crossed cacheline boundaries or
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.  snd-firewire-lib
got this aspect right by using an extra kmalloc/ kfree just for the
8-byte transaction buffer.)

This change replaces kmalloc'ed lock transaction scratch buffers in
firewire-core, firedtv, and snd-firewire-lib by local stack allocations.
Perhaps the most notable result of the change is simpler locking because
there is no need to serialize usages of preallocated per-device buffers
anymore.  Also, allocations and deallocations are simpler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
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We do not need slab allocations anymore in order to satisfy
streaming DMA mapping constraints, thanks to commit da28947e7e36
"firewire: ohci: avoid separate DMA mapping for small AT payloads".

(Besides, the slab-allocated buffers that firewire-core, firewire-sbp2,
and firedtv used to provide for 8-byte write and lock requests were
still not fully portable since they crossed cacheline boundaries or
shared a cacheline with unrelated CPU-accessed data.  snd-firewire-lib
got this aspect right by using an extra kmalloc/ kfree just for the
8-byte transaction buffer.)

This change replaces kmalloc'ed lock transaction scratch buffers in
firewire-core, firedtv, and snd-firewire-lib by local stack allocations.
Perhaps the most notable result of the change is simpler locking because
there is no need to serialize usages of preallocated per-device buffers
anymore.  Also, allocations and deallocations are simpler.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
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