Re: [PATCH 3/3] videobuf2-core.h: Document the alloc memop size argument as page aligned

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:59:50PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Sakari,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 12:40:06 EET Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > The size argument of the alloc memop, which allocates buffer memory, is
> > page aligned. Document it as such, as code elsewhere has not taken this
> > into account.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/media/videobuf2-core.h | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/media/videobuf2-core.h b/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
> > index e86981d615ae4..68b9fe660e4f1 100644
> > --- a/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
> > +++ b/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
> > @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ struct vb2_threadio_data;
> >   *		will then be passed as @buf_priv argument to other ops in this
> >   *		structure. Additional gfp_flags to use when allocating the
> >   *		are also passed to this operation. These flags are from the
> > - *		gfp_flags field of vb2_queue.
> > + *		gfp_flags field of vb2_queue. The size argument to this function
> > + *		shall be *page aligned*.
> >   * @put:	inform the allocator that the buffer will no longer be used;
> >   *		usually will result in the allocator freeing the buffer (if
> >   *		no other users of this buffer are present); the @buf_priv
> 
> I wonder if a WARN_ON() to ensure this would make sense. In any case,

There's a single place where the alloc() op is called. I thought it'd be
silly to put a check after the line of code that performs the alignment.

Perhaps a comment right there?

I'm open to other ideas that don't seem silly. :-)

> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

-- 
Sakari Ailus
sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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