linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: rpc-if: Remove CONFIG_PM

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jan 2021 12:11:31 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>,
        Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@...renesas.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: rpc-if: Remove CONFIG_PM_SLEEP ifdefery

Hi Pavel,

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:42 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:40 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de> wrote:
> > > > > > >                 .name   = "rpc-if-spi",
> > > > > > > -               .pm     = DEV_PM_OPS,
> > > > > > > +               .pm     = &rpcif_spi_pm_ops,
> > > >
> > > > > > You're aware rpcif_spi_pm_ops is now always referenced and thus emitted,
> > > > > > increasing kernel size by 92 bytes if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n?
> > > > > > This may matter for RZ/A SoCs running from internal SRAM.
> > > >
> > > > > Hmm didn't realise this would be an issue on RZ/A.
> > > >
> > > > > Mark, could you please drop this patch from your branch.
> > > >
> > > > Please send an incremental patch with an appropriate changelog.
> > >
> > > Let's fix this properly. I'm pretty sure we have some macros that can
> > > solve this without re-introducing the ifdefs...
> >
> > There's pm_ptr(), but it uses CONFIG_PM as a selector, not CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.
>
> Okay; so we could introduce pm_sleep_ptr().
>
> Or we could just put single #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP around the .pm
> assignment? That would be improvement on the original, and still
> result in the same binary, right?

Indeed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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