From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
To: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: James Wang <james.qian.wang@arm.com>,
Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@arm.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/komeda: remove redundant assignment to pointer disable_done
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 22:53:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35232014-f65a-f7a1-99db-8ed91f610a77@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004192720.7eiqdvsm2yv62svg@e110455-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On 04/10/2019 20:27, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 05:21:56PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> The pointer disable_done is being initialized with a value that
>> is never read and is being re-assigned a little later on. The
>> assignment is redundant and hence can be removed.
>
> Not really true, isn't it? The re-assignment is done under the condition that
> crtc->state->active is true. disable_done will be used regardless after the if
> block, so we can't skip this initialisation.
>
> Not sure why Coverity flags this, but I would NAK this patch.
I'm patching against the driver from linux-next so I believe this is OK
for that. I believe your statement is true against linux which does not
have commit:
d6cb013579e743bc7bc5590ca35a1943f2b8f3c8
Author: Lowry Li (Arm Technology China) <Lowry.Li@arm.com>
Date: Fri Sep 6 07:18:06 2019 +0000
Colin.
>
> Best regards,
> Liviu
>
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c
>> index 75263d8cd0bd..9beeda04818b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/display/komeda/komeda_crtc.c
>> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ komeda_crtc_atomic_disable(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
>> struct komeda_crtc_state *old_st = to_kcrtc_st(old);
>> struct komeda_pipeline *master = kcrtc->master;
>> struct komeda_pipeline *slave = kcrtc->slave;
>> - struct completion *disable_done = &crtc->state->commit->flip_done;
>> + struct completion *disable_done;
>> bool needs_phase2 = false;
>>
>> DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("CRTC%d_DISABLE: active_pipes: 0x%x, affected: 0x%x\n",
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 16:21 [PATCH][next] drm/komeda: remove redundant assignment to pointer disable_done Colin King
2019-10-04 19:27 ` Liviu Dudau
2019-10-04 21:53 ` Colin Ian King [this message]
2019-10-07 13:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-08 8:06 ` james qian wang (Arm Technology China)
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