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Date:   Sat, 13 May 2017 01:24:34 +0100
From:   André Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.xyz>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: use non-devm kmalloc versions for free functions

On 12/05/17 18:14, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> [170512 08:39]:
>> * Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> [170512 02:28]:
>>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com> wrote:
>>>> Linus, can you shed some light if this array creation serves some purpose?
>>>
>>> Tony [author of this function] can you look at this?
>>>
>>> The code in pinctrl_generic_free_groups() does look a bit weird,
>>> allocating these indices just to remove the radix tree.
>>> Do you think we can clean it up?
>>
>> Yup indeed it seems totally pointless. Also the same code can be
>> removed from pinmux_generic_free_functions().
>>
>> It must be left over code from my initial attempts to to add
>> generic pinctrl groups and functions when I still though we need
>> to keep a static array around for the indices to keep pinctrl
>> happy. Then I probably did some robotic compile fixes after
>> updating things to use just the radix tree and added indices
>> locally to both functions..
> 
> Hmm no that, can't be, I think I figured it out.. See the patch
> below.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony
> 
> 8< ---------------------------
> From tony Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 08:47:57 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] pinctrl: core: Fix warning by removing bogus code
> 
> Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com> noticed that we can get the
> following warning with -EPROBE_DEFER:
> 
> "WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 89 at drivers/base/dd.c:349
> driver_probe_device+0x2ac/0x2e8"
> 
> Let's fix the issue by removing the indices as suggested by
> Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>. All we have to do here is kill the radix
> tree.
> 
> I probably ended up with the indices after grepping for removal
> of all entries using radix_tree_for_each_slot() and the first
> match found was gmap_radix_tree_free(). Anyways, no need for
> indices here, and we can just do remove all the entries using
> radix_tree_for_each_slot() along how the item_kill_tree() test
> case does.

Yeah, I was hoping for exactly that!

> Fixes: c7059c5ac70a ("pinctrl: core: Add generic pinctrl functions
> for managing groups")
> Fixes: a76edc89b100 ("pinctrl: core: Add generic pinctrl functions
> for managing groups")
> Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

Thanks!
Andre

> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/core.c   | 20 +++-----------------
>  drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c | 21 ++++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> @@ -680,30 +680,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pinctrl_generic_remove_group);
>   * pinctrl_generic_free_groups() - removes all pin groups
>   * @pctldev: pin controller device
>   *
> - * Note that the caller must take care of locking.
> + * Note that the caller must take care of locking. The pinctrl groups
> + * are allocated with devm_kzalloc() so no need to free them here.
>   */
>  static void pinctrl_generic_free_groups(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
>  {
>  	struct radix_tree_iter iter;
> -	struct group_desc *group;
> -	unsigned long *indices;
>  	void **slot;
> -	int i = 0;
> -
> -	indices = devm_kzalloc(pctldev->dev, sizeof(*indices) *
> -			       pctldev->num_groups, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!indices)
> -		return;
>  
>  	radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, &pctldev->pin_group_tree, &iter, 0)
> -		indices[i++] = iter.index;
> -
> -	for (i = 0; i < pctldev->num_groups; i++) {
> -		group = radix_tree_lookup(&pctldev->pin_group_tree,
> -					  indices[i]);
> -		radix_tree_delete(&pctldev->pin_group_tree, indices[i]);
> -		devm_kfree(pctldev->dev, group);
> -	}
> +		radix_tree_delete(&pctldev->pin_group_tree, iter.index);
>  
>  	pctldev->num_groups = 0;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c
> @@ -826,30 +826,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pinmux_generic_remove_function);
>   * pinmux_generic_free_functions() - removes all functions
>   * @pctldev: pin controller device
>   *
> - * Note that the caller must take care of locking.
> + * Note that the caller must take care of locking. The pinctrl
> + * functions are allocated with devm_kzalloc() so no need to free
> + * them here.
>   */
>  void pinmux_generic_free_functions(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
>  {
>  	struct radix_tree_iter iter;
> -	struct function_desc *function;
> -	unsigned long *indices;
>  	void **slot;
> -	int i = 0;
> -
> -	indices = devm_kzalloc(pctldev->dev, sizeof(*indices) *
> -			       pctldev->num_functions, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!indices)
> -		return;
>  
>  	radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, &pctldev->pin_function_tree, &iter, 0)
> -		indices[i++] = iter.index;
> -
> -	for (i = 0; i < pctldev->num_functions; i++) {
> -		function = radix_tree_lookup(&pctldev->pin_function_tree,
> -					     indices[i]);
> -		radix_tree_delete(&pctldev->pin_function_tree, indices[i]);
> -		devm_kfree(pctldev->dev, function);
> -	}
> +		radix_tree_delete(&pctldev->pin_function_tree, iter.index);
>  
>  	pctldev->num_functions = 0;
>  }
> 

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