On 09/07/2012 02:44 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > The ad7476 driver has only support for 1 channel ADCs. So the upper limit for > the buffer size is the size of one sample plus the size of the timestamp. > Preallocate a buffer large enough to hold this to avoid having to allocate and > free a new buffer for each sample being captured. > > Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476.h | 5 ++++- > drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476_ring.c | 13 +++---------- > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476.h b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476.h > index 6085fad..c4f1150 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476.h > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476.h > @@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ struct ad7476_state { > /* > * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the > * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines. > + * Make the buffer large enough for one 16 bit sample and one 64 bit > + * aligned 64 bit timestamp. > */ > - unsigned char data[2] ____cacheline_aligned; > + unsigned char data[ALIGN(2, sizeof(s64)) + sizeof(s64)] > + ____cacheline_aligned; > }; > > enum ad7476_supported_device_ids { > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476_ring.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476_ring.c > index 940681f..185cfde 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476_ring.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7476_ring.c > @@ -26,14 +26,9 @@ static irqreturn_t ad7476_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) > struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev; > struct ad7476_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev); > s64 time_ns; > - __u8 *rxbuf; > int b_sent; > > - rxbuf = kzalloc(indio_dev->scan_bytes, GFP_KERNEL); > - if (rxbuf == NULL) > - goto done; > - > - b_sent = spi_read(st->spi, rxbuf, > + b_sent = spi_read(st->spi, st->data, > st->chip_info->channel[0].scan_type.storagebits / 8); I just noticed this can even more be simplified by using the prepared SPI message. Unfortunately this will require regeneration of a few more patches. I'll resend the whole series next week, after it had some exposure to review. > if (b_sent < 0) > goto done; > @@ -41,13 +36,11 @@ static irqreturn_t ad7476_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p) > time_ns = iio_get_time_ns(); > > if (indio_dev->scan_timestamp) > - memcpy(rxbuf + indio_dev->scan_bytes - sizeof(s64), > - &time_ns, sizeof(time_ns)); > + ((s64 *)st->data)[1] = time_ns; > > - iio_push_to_buffer(indio_dev->buffer, rxbuf); > + iio_push_to_buffer(indio_dev->buffer, st->data); > done: > iio_trigger_notify_done(indio_dev->trig); > - kfree(rxbuf); > > return IRQ_HANDLED; > } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html