From: helgaas@kernel.org (Bjorn Helgaas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH V5 1/5] PCI: Embed pci_ecam_ops in pci_config_window structure
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 21:22:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160905022203.GB30488@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160902153845.GA11234@red-moon>
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 04:38:45PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:23:45PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 03:05:37PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> > > pci_config_window keeps pointer to pci_ecam_ops and every time
> > > we want to deallocate pci_config_window (pci_ecam_free()) we need to make
> > > sure to free pci_ecam_ops in case it was dynamically allocated prior to
> > > pci_ecam_create() call.
> >
> > I think this is a theoretical problem, right? All the current callers
> > pass a pointer to a static pci_ecam_ops struct that does not need to
> > be deallocated.
> >
> > I see that the next patch uses a pci_ecam_ops struct on the stack,
>
> I asked Tomasz why we need to have pci_ecam_ops on the stack in the
> first place since I do not think it is needed, or nicer (actually I
> think it is not nice at all, what's the problem in making it static ?).
If it's useful to copy the struct instead of saving the pointer, that's
fine. I just want the changelog to match the diff.
Bjorn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 13:05 [RFC PATCH V5 0/5] ECAM quirks handling for ARM64 platforms Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-08 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH V5 1/5] PCI: Embed pci_ecam_ops in pci_config_window structure Tomasz Nowicki
2016-09-01 18:23 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-09-02 15:38 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-09-05 2:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2016-08-08 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH V5 2/5] PCI/ACPI: Move ACPI ECAM mapping to generic MCFG driver Tomasz Nowicki
2016-09-05 2:22 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-09-06 18:04 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-08 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH V5 3/5] PCI: Check platform specific ECAM quirks Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-08 15:34 ` Mark Salter
2016-08-09 6:10 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2016-09-05 2:25 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-09-06 17:49 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2016-09-06 19:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-05 2:59 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-08 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH V5 4/5] ARM64/PCI: Start using quirks handling for ACPI based PCI host controller Tomasz Nowicki
2016-09-05 2:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-08-08 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH V5 5/5] PCI: thunder-pem: Support quirky configuration space access " Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-09 11:04 ` Robert Richter
2016-09-05 2:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-09-06 18:01 ` Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-08 15:13 ` [RFC PATCH V5 0/5] ECAM quirks handling for ARM64 platforms Graeme Gregory
2016-08-08 19:44 ` Mark Salter
2016-08-09 9:20 ` Dongdong Liu
2016-08-09 10:29 ` Robert Richter
2016-08-09 14:20 ` Duc Dang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-08 12:56 Tomasz Nowicki
2016-08-08 12:56 ` [RFC PATCH V5 1/5] PCI: Embed pci_ecam_ops in pci_config_window structure Tomasz Nowicki
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