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Message-Id: <20101005122225.6dda30ff.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:22:25 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>
Cc: <lars@...afoo.de>, <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
<philipp.zabel@...il.com>, <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
<marek.vasut@...il.com>, <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
<rpurdie@...ys.net>, <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
<kgene.kim@...sung.com>, <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
<STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com>, <bgat@...lgatliff.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/7] pwm: Add pwm core driver
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:29:56 +0530
Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com> wrote:
> The existing pwm based led and backlight driver makes use of the
> pwm(include/linux/pwm.h). So all the board specific pwm drivers will
> be exposing the same set of function name as in include/linux/pwm.h.
> Consder a platform with multi Soc or having more than one pwm module, in
> such a case, there exists more than one pwm driver for a platform. Each
> of these pwm drivers export the same set of function and hence leads to
> re-declaration build error.
>
> In order to overcome this issue all the pwm drivers must register to
> some core pwm driver with function pointers for pwm operations (i.e
> pwm_config, pwm_enable, pwm_disable).
>
> The clients of pwm device will have to call pwm_request, wherein
> they will get the pointer to struct pwm_ops. This structure include
> function pointers for pwm_config, pwm_enable and pwm_disable.
>
Have we worked out who will be merging this work, if it gets merged?
>
> ...
>
> +struct pwm_dev_info {
> + struct pwm_device *pwm_dev;
> + struct list_head list;
> +};
> +static struct pwm_dev_info *di;
We could just do
static struct pwm_dev_info {
...
} *di;
> +DECLARE_RWSEM(pwm_list_lock);
This can/should be static.
> +void __deprecated pwm_free(struct pwm_device *pwm)
> +{
> +}
Why are we adding a new function and already deprecating it?
Probably this was already addressed in earlier review, but I'm asking
again, because there's no comment explaining the reasons. Lesson
learned, please add a comment.
Oh, I see that pwm_free() already exists. This patch adds a new copy
and doesn't remove the old function. Does this all actually work?
It still needs a comment explaining why it's deprecated.
> +int pwm_config(struct pwm_device *pwm, int duty_ns, int period_ns)
> +{
> + if (!pwm->pops)
> + -EFAULT;
> + return pwm->pops->pwm_config(pwm, duty_ns, period_ns);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_config);
> +
> +int pwm_enable(struct pwm_device *pwm)
> +{
> + if (!pwm->pops)
> + -EFAULT;
> + return pwm->pops->pwm_enable(pwm);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_enable);
> +
> +void pwm_disable(struct pwm_device *pwm)
> +{
> + if (!pwm->pops)
> + -EFAULT;
> + pwm->pops->pwm_disable(pwm);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_disable);
> +
> +int pwm_device_register(struct pwm_device *pwm_dev)
> +{
> + struct pwm_dev_info *pwm;
> +
> + down_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> + pwm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pwm_dev_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pwm) {
> + up_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
The allocation attempt can be moved outside the lock, making the code
faster, cleaner and shorter.
> + pwm->pwm_dev = pwm_dev;
> + list_add_tail(&pwm->list, &di->list);
> + up_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_device_register);
> +
> +int pwm_device_unregister(struct pwm_device *pwm_dev)
> +{
> + struct pwm_dev_info *tmp;
> + struct list_head *pos, *tmp_lst;
> +
> + down_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> + list_for_each_safe(pos, tmp_lst, &di->list) {
> + tmp = list_entry(pos, struct pwm_dev_info, list);
> + if (tmp->pwm_dev == pwm_dev) {
> + list_del(pos);
> + kfree(tmp);
> + up_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> + return 0;
> + }
> + }
> + up_write(&pwm_list_lock);
> + return -ENOENT;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_device_unregister);
> +
> +struct pwm_device *pwm_request(int pwm_id, const char *name)
> +{
> + struct pwm_dev_info *pwm;
> + struct list_head *pos;
> +
> + down_read(&pwm_list_lock);
> + list_for_each(pos, &di->list) {
> + pwm = list_entry(pos, struct pwm_dev_info, list);
> + if ((!strcmp(pwm->pwm_dev->pops->name, name)) &&
> + (pwm->pwm_dev->pwm_id == pwm_id)) {
> + up_read(&pwm_list_lock);
> + return pwm->pwm_dev;
> + }
> + }
> + up_read(&pwm_list_lock);
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(pwm_request);
We have a new kernel-wide exported-to-modules formal API. We prefer
that such things be fully documented, please. kerneldoc is a suitable
way but please avoid falling into the kerneldoc trap of filling out
fields with obvious boilerplate and not actually telling people
anything interesting or useful.
> +static int __init pwm_init(void)
> +{
> + struct pwm_dev_info *pwm;
> +
> + pwm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pwm_dev_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!pwm)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pwm->list);
> + di = pwm;
> + return 0;
> +}
OK, this looks wrong.
AFACIT you've created a dummy pwm_dev_info as a singleton, kernel-wide
anchor for a list of all pwm_dev_info's. So this "anchor" pwm_dev_info
never actually gets used for anything.
The way to do this is to remove `di' altogether and instead use a
singleton, kernel-wide list_head as the anchor for all the
dynamically-allocated pwm_dev_info's.
> +subsys_initcall(pwm_init);
> +
> +static void __exit pwm_exit(void)
> +{
> + kfree(di);
> +}
> +
> +module_exit(pwm_exit);
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Arun R Murthy");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("core:pwm");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Core pwm driver");
> diff --git a/include/linux/pwm.h b/include/linux/pwm.h
> index 7c77575..6e7da1f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pwm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pwm.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
>
> struct pwm_device;
>
> +struct pwm_ops {
> + int (*pwm_config)(struct pwm_device *pwm, int duty_ns, int period_ns);
> + int (*pwm_enable)(struct pwm_device *pwm);
> + int (*pwm_disable)(struct pwm_device *pwm);
> + char *name;
> +};
This also should be documented.
>
> ...
>
I suggest that you work on Kevin's comments before making any code
changes though.
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