tree e4d6e7bad161a76b09557bf7513358ae1ce8f7fb
parent 020abf03cd659388f94cb328e1e1df0656e0d7ff
author Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 1303478034 +0200
committer Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 1305060824 +0200

firewire: octlet AT payloads can be stack-allocated

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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>