Re: USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:31:54AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:11:25PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > I vote for a clean solution, a fixup of existing implementations and
> > a clear note about how to allocate buffers for USB drivers. I believe
> > faulty allocations of this kind can explain quite a lot of problems on
> > x86_64 machines.
> 
> Yeah, I really don't want to have to change every driver in different
> ways just depending on if someone thinks it is going to need to run on
> this wierd hardware.
> 
> Alan, any objection to just using usb_buffer_alloc() for every driver?
> Or is that too much overhead?

FWIW, most drivers I've seen in the past hours use a wild mix of
kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc() and usb_buffer_alloc(). That should
really be unified.

Daniel

_______________________________________________
Alsa-devel mailing list
Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

[Index of Archives]     [ALSA User]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Kernel Archive]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Photo Sharing]     [Linux Sound]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]

  Powered by Linux