Re: [PATCH 2/5] resource: add a not device managed request_free_mem_region variant

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:12:44AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Just add a simple macro that passes a NULL dev argument to
> dev_request_free_mem_region, and call request_mem_region in the
> function for that particular case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>  include/linux/ioport.h | 2 ++
>  kernel/resource.c      | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
> index 0dcc48cafa80..528ae6cbb1b4 100644
> +++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
> @@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ static inline bool resource_overlaps(struct resource *r1, struct resource *r2)
>  
>  struct resource *devm_request_free_mem_region(struct device *dev,
>  		struct resource *base, unsigned long size, const char *name);
> +#define request_free_mem_region(base, size, name) \
> +	devm_request_free_mem_region(NULL, base, size, name)
>  
>  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>  #endif	/* _LINUX_IOPORT_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
> index 0ddc558586a7..3a826b3cc883 100644
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -1671,7 +1671,10 @@ struct resource *devm_request_free_mem_region(struct device *dev,
>  				REGION_DISJOINT)
>  			continue;
>  
> -		res = devm_request_mem_region(dev, addr, size, name);
> +		if (dev)
> +			res = devm_request_mem_region(dev, addr, size, name);
> +		else
> +			res = request_mem_region(addr, size, name);

It is a bit jarring to have something called devm_* that doesn't
actually do the devm_ part on some paths.

Maybe this function should be called __request_free_mem_region() with
another name wrapper macro?

Jason