firmware: cs_dsp: Fix fragmentation regression in firmware download

Use vmalloc() instead of kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA) to alloc the temporary
buffer for firmware download blobs. This avoids the problem

firmware: cs_dsp: Fix fragmentation regression in firmware download

Use vmalloc() instead of kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA) to alloc the temporary
buffer for firmware download blobs. This avoids the problem that a
heavily fragmented system cannot allocate enough physically-contiguous
memory for a large blob.

The redundant alloc buffer mechanism was removed in commit 900baa6e7bb0
("firmware: cs_dsp: Remove redundant download buffer allocator").
While doing that I was overly focused on the possibility of the
underlying bus requiring DMA-safe memory. So I used GFP_DMA kmalloc()s.
I failed to notice that the code I was removing used vmalloc().
This creates a regression.

Way back in 2014 the problem of fragmentation with kmalloc()s was fixed
by commit cdcd7f728753 ("ASoC: wm_adsp: Use vmalloc to allocate firmware
download buffer").

Although we don't need physically-contiguous memory, we don't know if the
bus needs some particular alignment of the buffers. Since the change in
2014, the firmware download has always used whatever alignment vmalloc()
returns. To avoid introducing a new problem, the temporary buffer is still
used, to keep the same alignment of pointers passed to regmap_raw_write().

Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
Fixes: 900baa6e7bb0 ("firmware: cs_dsp: Remove redundant download buffer allocator")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304141250.1578597-1-rf@opensource.cirrus.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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