linux-kernel - Re: Freeing of dev->p

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:29:11 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Wu <lekensteyn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Freeing of dev->p

Hi Greg,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:24:02 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:39:07PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > (...)
> > Then I suppose we could inline both functions
> > again, for performance. Well, put in short, really revering
> > b4028437876866aba4747a655ede00f892089e14 would be the way to go IMHO.
> >
> > Really, while I understand your envy to protect driver core internals
> > from unwanted access, the cost here was simply too high IMHO, both in
> > terms of getting things right and performance. Some drivers are calling
> > dev_get_drvdata() directly or indirectly repeatedly at run-time. They
> > had no reason not to as this used to be so fast, and now it is no
> > longer an inline function, it has conditionals and a double pointer
> > indirection...
> > 
> > Plus, I can't think of anything really bad that could result from
> > accessing driver_data directly, contrary to the other members of struct
> > device_private.
> 
> (...)
> 
> Thanks for the detailed response, I think I'll just revert most of that
> patch and see if it's still workable.

Any news on this?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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