From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: why2jjj.linux@gmail.com (J Freyensee)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:00:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] genalloc: track beginning of allocations
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On 2/28/18 12:06 PM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> +
> +/**
> + * gen_pool_dma_alloc() - allocate special memory from the pool for DMA usage
> + * @pool: pool to allocate from
> + * @size: number of bytes to allocate from the pool
> + * @dma: dma-view physical address return value.  Use NULL if unneeded.
> + *
> + * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool.
> + * Uses the pool allocation function (with first-fit algorithm by default).
> + * Can not be used in NMI handler on architectures without
> + * NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * * address of the memory allocated	- success
> + * * NULL				- error
> + */
> +void *gen_pool_dma_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma);
> +

OK, so gen_pool_dma_alloc() is defined here, which believe is the API 
line being drawn for this series.

so,
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>   
>   /**
> - * gen_pool_dma_alloc - allocate special memory from the pool for DMA usage
> + * gen_pool_dma_alloc() - allocate special memory from the pool for DMA usage
>    * @pool: pool to allocate from
>    * @size: number of bytes to allocate from the pool
>    * @dma: dma-view physical address return value.  Use NULL if unneeded.
> @@ -342,14 +566,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_alloc_algo);
>    * Uses the pool allocation function (with first-fit algorithm by default).
>    * Can not be used in NMI handler on architectures without
>    * NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation.
> + *
> + * Return:
> + * * address of the memory allocated	- success
> + * * NULL				- error
>    */
>   void *gen_pool_dma_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma)
>   {
>   	unsigned long vaddr;
>   
> -	if (!pool)
> -		return NULL;
> -
why is this being removed?? I don't believe this code was getting 
removed from your v17 series patches.
>   	vaddr = gen_pool_alloc(pool, size);
>   	if (!vaddr)
>   		return NULL;
> @@ -362,10 +587,10 @@ void *gen_pool_dma_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma)
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_dma_alloc);
>   
>
Otherwise, looks good,

Reviewed-by: Jay Freyensee <why2jjj.linux@gmail.com>
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