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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sound/firewire/cmp.c b/sound/firewire/cmp.c
index 4a37f3a..14cacbc 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/cmp.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/cmp.c
@@ -49,10 +49,9 @@ static int pcr_modify(struct cmp_connection *c,
 		      enum bus_reset_handling bus_reset_handling)
 {
 	struct fw_device *device = fw_parent_device(c->resources.unit);
-	__be32 *buffer = c->resources.buffer;
 	int generation = c->resources.generation;
 	int rcode, errors = 0;
-	__be32 old_arg;
+	__be32 old_arg, buffer[2];
 	int err;
 
 	buffer[0] = c->last_pcr_value;