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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Vincent MAILHOL <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Rhett Aultman <rhett.aultman@samsara.com>,
	Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-can <linux-can@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] USB: core: urb: add new transfer flag URB_FREE_COHERENT
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 13:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <409f73a8-8679-61ff-4da6-018833c7a96d@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZ6Rq+CtOQ7Gn62QQqDd=_0dvCNhh5g_oXB6LmHEd0MfRym1g@mail.gmail.com>


On 07.06.22 12:18, Vincent MAILHOL wrote:
> Here the proposed solution was to keep a pointer of all the
> transfer_buffer in a local array to be able to free them when closing.
> I really found that original patch to be unelegant which led me to
> propose this RFC.
It was.
> Comparatively, I still think my patch to be a more elegant solution,
> and the original author also seems to share my thoughts.
>
> If my patch is unelegant, then what would be the elegant/state of the
> art way to free all this DMA allocated memory?
> (pointing to any reference driver implementation should be enough for
> me to understand).

I have two options to offer.

1. Use the existing URB_NO_TRANSFER_D;MA_MAP to decide
how to free memory.

2. Provide an explicit API in usbcore among the anchor API

    Regards
        Oliver



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-07 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2206031547001.1630869@thelappy>
2022-06-04  2:11 ` [PATCH] can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close( ) fix memory leak Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-04  2:26   ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-04 14:08     ` Rhett Aultman
2022-06-04 14:41       ` [RFC PATCH] USB: core: urb: add new transfer flag URB_FREE_COHERENT Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-04 16:40         ` Alan Stern
2022-06-05  2:04           ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-05  6:00           ` Oliver Neukum
2022-06-05 13:45             ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-07  9:49               ` Oliver Neukum
2022-06-07 10:18                 ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-07 11:46                   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2022-06-07 12:12                     ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-05  2:15         ` [RFC PATCH v2] usb: " Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-04 14:53       ` [PATCH] can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close( ) fix memory leak Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-09 20:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] URB_FREE_COHERENT gs_usb memory leak fix Rhett Aultman
2022-06-09 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] drivers: usb/core/urb: Add URB_FREE_COHERENT Rhett Aultman
2022-06-10  0:18     ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-10 10:46       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-06-09 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] drivers: usb/core/urb: allow URB_FREE_COHERENT Rhett Aultman
2022-06-09 23:18     ` Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-09 20:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] can: gs_usb: fix DMA memory leak on close Rhett Aultman
2022-06-10  0:05     ` Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-10  1:28       ` Vincent Mailhol
2022-06-10 21:33   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] URB_FREE_COHERENT gs_usb memory leak fix Rhett Aultman
2022-06-10 21:33     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] drivers: usb/core/urb: Add URB_FREE_COHERENT Rhett Aultman
2022-06-11 15:31       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-06-11 16:06         ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 13:51           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-21 14:59             ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 15:03               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-21 15:54                 ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 15:11               ` Alan Stern
2022-06-21 15:55                 ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 16:14                   ` Alan Stern
2022-06-21 16:40                     ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 17:00                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-21 17:14                         ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-21 17:46                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-22  9:22                   ` David Laight
2022-06-22  9:41                     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-22 10:03                       ` David Laight
2022-06-22 11:11                         ` Oliver Neukum
2022-06-22 10:34                       ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-22 12:23                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-22 15:59                           ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-22 18:11                             ` Rhett Aultman
2022-06-26  8:21                               ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-23 17:30       ` Hongren Zenithal Zheng
2022-06-23 17:45         ` Shuah Khan
2022-06-24 14:43           ` Alan Stern
2022-06-24 16:01             ` Hongren Zenithal Zheng
2022-06-24 16:31             ` Shuah Khan
2022-06-24 18:07               ` Alan Stern
2022-06-27 22:54                 ` Shuah Khan
2022-06-28  1:35                   ` Alan Stern
2022-07-01  2:10                     ` Shuah Khan
2022-08-01 17:42                       ` Shuah Khan
2022-08-01 18:28                         ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-08-03 23:44                           ` Shuah Khan
2022-06-10 21:33     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] can: gs_usb: fix DMA memory leak on close Rhett Aultman
2022-06-11 15:35       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2022-06-11 16:03         ` Vincent MAILHOL
2022-06-12 21:28       ` David Laight
2022-06-12 21:33         ` Marc Kleine-Budde

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