linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/18] perf: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:50:09 +0000
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Raag Jadav <raag.jadav@...el.com>,
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	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] perf: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Hi Uwe,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 09:56:26AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:59:00PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > this series converts all drivers below drivers/perf to use
> > .remove_new(). See commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform: Provide a remove
> > callback that returns no value") for an extended explanation and the
> > eventual goal. The TL;DR; is to make it harder for driver authors to
> > leak resources without noticing.
> > 
> > I based the patches on today's next, I had to revert commits 
> > 3115ee021bfb ("arm64: perf: Include threshold control fields in
> > PMEVTYPER mask") and 816c26754447 ("arm64: perf: Add support for event
> > counting threshold") to compile test on ARCH=arm (this is a problem in
> > next, not in my patch series).
> > 
> > This is merge window material. All patches are pairwise independent of
> > each other so they can be applied individually. Still it would be great
> > to let them go in all together.
> 
> I wonder if this series is still on someone's radar. It didn't appear in
> next up to now, so I guess it's too late for 6.8-rc1?!

This came in during the holiday period so, by the time I saw it, it was
too late to land for this merge window. I can pick it up for 6.9 in a few
weeks, though. I usually start queueing stuff at -rc3.

Will