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SubjectRE: [PATCH v7 2/5] media: platform: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti Video Input Interface driver
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Hello Robin, Laurent,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 10:36 PM
> To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>; ishikawa yuji(石川
> 悠司 ○RDC□AITC○EA開) <yuji2.ishikawa@toshiba.co.jp>
> Cc: krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org; hverkuil@xs4all.nl; sakari.ailus@iki.fi;
> mchehab@kernel.org; robh+dt@kernel.org; krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org;
> conor+dt@kernel.org; iwamatsu nobuhiro(岩松 信洋 ○DITC□DIT○OS
> T) <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>; broonie@kernel.org;
> linux-media@vger.kernel.org; devicetree@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Christoph
> Hellwig <hch@lst.de>; Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/5] media: platform: visconti: Add Toshiba Visconti
> Video Input Interface driver
>
> On 2023-08-21 14:19, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> [...]
> >>>> + viif_dev->tables =
> >>>> + dma_alloc_wc(dev, sizeof(struct viif_table_area),
> &tables_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> >>>> + if (!viif_dev->tables) {
> >>>> + dev_err(dev, "dma_alloc_wc failed\n");
> >>>
> >>> Are you sure DMA memory allocation errors shall be printed?
> >>
> >> Printing this error is useless for users in general?
> >> If so, I'll drop this debug output.
> >
> > Failures to allocate memory in the kernel generally result in warning
> > messages being printed by the allocation function, so there's no need
> > to do so manually in drivers. This being said, I check dma_alloc_wc()
> > (which is a wrapper around dma_alloc_attrs()), and unless I'm missing
> > something, it can return NULL without printing any error. I don't know
> > if this is an oversight in some code paths taken by dma_alloc_attrs()
> > or if it's on purpose. Maybe Christoph, Marek or Roben will known.
>
> Yeah, there might be a few edge cases, but in most cases
> dma_alloc_attrs() will end up falling back to the page allocator as a last resort if
> all the more preferred allocation options fail, and thus complete failure should
> eventually cause that to scream unless DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN was specified.

I understand there's no need for printing this error message at driver code.
I'll remove dev_err().

> Thanks,
> Robin.

Regards,
Yuji
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