[PATCH v2 3/4] drm/i915: pre-alloc instead of drm_mm search/get_block
David Herrmann
dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 06:09:48 PDT 2013
Hi
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 01:38:42PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
>> i915 is the last user of the weird search+get_block drm_mm API. Convert it
>> to an explicit kmalloc()+insert_node(). This drops the last user of the
>> node-cache in drm_mm. We can remove it now in a follow-up patch.
>>
>> v2:
>> - simplify error path in i915_setup_compression()
>
> You only applied it to the err path, I was expecting err_fb to do the
> kfree(compressed_llb) as well. Feel free to rename those to err_fb and
> err_llb respectively if you think that helps.
I wasn't sure about that second error-path. Some kernel subsystems
tend to inline error-paths that are only taken once (which is the case
for compressed_llb). But if that's not the case for DRM, I will surely
fix that, too.
Thanks
David
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