linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/9] suppress "Device nodeX does not have a release() function" warning

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Message-Id: <1350629202-9664-3-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:46:35 +0800
From:	wency@...fujitsu.com
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, liuj97@...il.com, len.brown@...el.com,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, minchan.kim@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com, Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/9] suppress "Device nodeX does not have a release() function" warning

From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>

When calling unregister_node(), the function shows following message at
device_release().

"Device 'node2' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must
be fixed."

The reason is node's device struct does not have a release() function.

So the patch registers node_device_release() to the device's release()
function for suppressing the warning message. Additionally, the patch adds
memset() to initialize a node struct into register_node(). Because the node
struct is part of node_devices[] array and it cannot be freed by
node_device_release(). So if system reuses the node struct, it has a garbage.

CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
---
 drivers/base/node.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index af1a177..2baa73a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ static inline void hugetlb_register_node(struct node *node) {}
 static inline void hugetlb_unregister_node(struct node *node) {}
 #endif
 
+static void node_device_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+}
 
 /*
  * register_node - Setup a sysfs device for a node.
@@ -263,8 +266,11 @@ int register_node(struct node *node, int num, struct node *parent)
 {
 	int error;
 
+	memset(node, 0, sizeof(*node));
+
 	node->dev.id = num;
 	node->dev.bus = &node_subsys;
+	node->dev.release = node_device_release;
 	error = device_register(&node->dev);
 
 	if (!error){
-- 
1.7.1

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