This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: 6fire: make buffers DMA-able (midi) to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alsa-6fire-make-buffers-dma-able-midi.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 81b043782e78a7cdb4ee869d35e493756237a775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:11:35 +0200 Subject: ALSA: 6fire: make buffers DMA-able (midi) From: Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@xxxxxxxx> commit 4c2aee0032b70083dafebd733ed9c774633b2fa3 upstream. Patch makes midi output buffer DMA-able by allocating it separately. Signed-off-by: Torsten Schenk <torsten.schenk@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/usb/6fire/midi.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- sound/usb/6fire/midi.h | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/sound/usb/6fire/midi.c +++ b/sound/usb/6fire/midi.c @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ #include "chip.h" #include "comm.h" +enum { + MIDI_BUFSIZE = 64 +}; + static void usb6fire_midi_out_handler(struct urb *urb) { struct midi_runtime *rt = urb->context; @@ -156,6 +160,12 @@ int __devinit usb6fire_midi_init(struct if (!rt) return -ENOMEM; + rt->out_buffer = kzalloc(MIDI_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!rt->out_buffer) { + kfree(rt); + return -ENOMEM; + } + rt->chip = chip; rt->in_received = usb6fire_midi_in_received; rt->out_buffer[0] = 0x80; /* 'send midi' command */ @@ -169,6 +179,7 @@ int __devinit usb6fire_midi_init(struct ret = snd_rawmidi_new(chip->card, "6FireUSB", 0, 1, 1, &rt->instance); if (ret < 0) { + kfree(rt->out_buffer); kfree(rt); snd_printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "unable to create midi.\n"); return ret; @@ -197,6 +208,9 @@ void usb6fire_midi_abort(struct sfire_ch void usb6fire_midi_destroy(struct sfire_chip *chip) { - kfree(chip->midi); + struct midi_runtime *rt = chip->midi; + + kfree(rt->out_buffer); + kfree(rt); chip->midi = NULL; } --- a/sound/usb/6fire/midi.h +++ b/sound/usb/6fire/midi.h @@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ #include "common.h" -enum { - MIDI_BUFSIZE = 64 -}; - struct midi_runtime { struct sfire_chip *chip; struct snd_rawmidi *instance; @@ -32,7 +28,7 @@ struct midi_runtime { struct snd_rawmidi_substream *out; struct urb out_urb; u8 out_serial; /* serial number of out packet */ - u8 out_buffer[MIDI_BUFSIZE]; + u8 *out_buffer; int buffer_offset; void (*in_received)(struct midi_runtime *rt, u8 *data, int length); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torsten.schenk@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/alsa-6fire-fix-dma-issues-with-urb-transfer_buffer-usage.patch queue-3.4/alsa-6fire-make-buffers-dma-able-midi.patch queue-3.4/alsa-6fire-make-buffers-dma-able-pcm.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html