From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@free.fr>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
linux-clk <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] clk: Convert managed get functions to devm_add_action API
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:17:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191212141747.GI25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70528f77-ca10-01cd-153b-23486ce87d45@free.fr>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> On 11/12/2019 23:28, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> >
> >> What is the rationale for the devm_add_action API?
> >
> > For one-off and maybe complex unwind actions in drivers that wish to use
> > devm API (as mixing devm and manual release is verboten). Also is often
> > used when some core subsystem does not provide enough devm APIs.
>
> Thanks for the insight, Dmitry. Thanks to Robin too.
>
> This is what I understand so far:
>
> devm_add_action() is nice because it hides/factorizes the complexity
> of the devres API, but it incurs a small storage overhead of one
> pointer per call, which makes it unfit for frequently used actions,
> such as clk_get.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> My question is: why not design the API without the small overhead?
>
> Proof of concept below:
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
> index 0bbb328bd17f..76392dd6273b 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/devres.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,20 @@ int devres_release_group(struct device *dev, void *id)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devres_release_group);
>
> +void *devm_add(struct device *dev, dr_release_t func, void *arg, size_t size)
> +{
> + void *data = devres_alloc(func, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> + if (data) {
> + memcpy(data, arg, size);
> + devres_add(dev, data);
> + } else
> + func(dev, arg);
> +
> + return data;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_add);
> +
> /*
> * Custom devres actions allow inserting a simple function call
> * into the teadown sequence.
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-devres.c b/drivers/clk/clk-devres.c
> index be160764911b..8db671823126 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-devres.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-devres.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
> #include <linux/export.h>
> #include <linux/gfp.h>
>
> +static void __clk_put(struct device *dev, void *data)
> +{
> + clk_put(*(struct clk **)data);
> +}
> +
> static void devm_clk_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
> {
> clk_put(*(struct clk **)res);
> @@ -11,19 +16,11 @@ static void devm_clk_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
>
> struct clk *devm_clk_get(struct device *dev, const char *id)
> {
> - struct clk **ptr, *clk;
> -
> - ptr = devres_alloc(devm_clk_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!ptr)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + struct clk *clk = clk_get(dev, id);
>
> - clk = clk_get(dev, id);
> - if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
> - *ptr = clk;
> - devres_add(dev, ptr);
> - } else {
> - devres_free(ptr);
> - }
> + if (!IS_ERR(clk))
> + if (!devm_add(dev, __clk_put, &clk, sizeof(clk)))
> + clk = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
You leak clk here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-12 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 16:13 [PATCH v1] clk: Convert managed get functions to devm_add_action API Marc Gonzalez
2019-11-28 18:56 ` Bjorn Andersson
2019-12-02 1:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-02 9:25 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-02 13:51 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-11 16:17 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-11 22:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-12 13:53 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 14:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2019-12-12 14:41 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 14:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 15:51 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 16:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 14:47 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-12 16:59 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-12-12 17:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-12-12 18:15 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-12 19:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-12-12 21:08 ` Robin Murphy
2019-12-13 0:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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