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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 08:34:05 +0800
From: "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@...ux.intel.com>
To: minyard@....org, openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipmi/kcs_bmc v1] ipmi: kcs_bmc: optimize the data buffers
allocation
Just a small piece of cake, not so urgent. I just try to understand
the code commitment process, such as time etc. :)
Thanks!
BR,
Haiyue
On 2018-04-04 02:45, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 04/03/2018 01:00 AM, Wang, Haiyue wrote:
>> Hi Corey,
>>
>> The 4.17 merge window is opened now, this patch is not yet in
>> linux-next tree,
>>
>> so it will be merged into 4.18 ?
>>
>
> Yeah, this came in kind of late, and I had some other critical
> things I was having to focus on, so I've been kind of out of the loop.
>
> If it's urgent, I can work on getting it into 4.17 later, but I'd rather
> wait on 4.18.
>
> -corey
>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Haiyue
>>
>> On 2018-03-15 20:20, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>>> Allocate a continuous memory block for the three KCS data buffers with
>>> related index assignment.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@...ux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c | 10 ++++++----
>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>>> index fbfc05e..dc19c0d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
>>> @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcs_bmc_fops
>>> = {
>>> struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv,
>>> u32 channel)
>>> {
>>> struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc;
>>> + void *buf;
>>> kcs_bmc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*kcs_bmc) + sizeof_priv,
>>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>> if (!kcs_bmc)
>>> @@ -448,11 +449,12 @@ struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device
>>> *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
>>> mutex_init(&kcs_bmc->mutex);
>>> init_waitqueue_head(&kcs_bmc->queue);
>>> - kcs_bmc->data_in = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ,
>>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>> - kcs_bmc->data_out = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> - kcs_bmc->kbuffer = devm_kmalloc(dev, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> - if (!kcs_bmc->data_in || !kcs_bmc->data_out || !kcs_bmc->kbuffer)
>>> + buf = devm_kmalloc_array(dev, 3, KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> + if (!buf)
>>> return NULL;
>>> + kcs_bmc->data_in = buf;
>>> + kcs_bmc->data_out = buf + KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ;
>>> + kcs_bmc->kbuffer = buf + KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ * 2;
>>> kcs_bmc->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
>>> kcs_bmc->miscdev.name = dev_name(dev);
>>
>
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