linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] devres: Provide krealloc

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Message-ID: <7fc93591-53a8-3c62-4dbe-c187adaa3b5d@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2023 23:47:18 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Coresight ML <coresight@...ts.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] devres: Provide krealloc_array

Hi Greg,

Links updated to the series.

On 31/05/2023 23:44, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> (Removed irrelevant recipients), +Cc: coresight ml
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 15/05/2023 12:55, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 08:55:33AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/05/2023 12:04, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:49:38AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>>>>> There is no krealloc_array equivalent in devres. Users would have to
>>>>> do their own multiplication overflow check so provide one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst |  1 +
>>>>>   include/linux/device.h                           | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> ...
> 
>>> Maybe something could be done with some macro magic, but it would
>>> probably end up being worse than just copying them and would affect the
>>> real ones as well. So yeah I can't think of any easy gains either.
>>
>> Ok, that's good.  Given a lack of objections from others, I'll just take
>> this through my driver core tree in a few days.
> 
> Apologies for hijacking the thread. We have a series for CoreSight[1]
> that depends on this series, which I see that, is queued in your
> driver-core-next.
> 
> I would like to queue [1] for the next version (as there are other
> work that depend on this, e.g., [2]). Do you have any 
> recommendations/comments on the proposal ? Are you able to share a
> stable branch which can be merged to coresight/next and queue the
> series ontop ? (PS: I haven't queued anything for coresight/next yet).

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230425143542.2305069-1-james.clark@arm.com
[2] 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1682586037-25973-1-git-send-email-quic_taozha@quicinc.com


Suzuki