linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Add sysfs_bin_attr_simple

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Message-ID: <2024041101-haggler-devouring-9dcf@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:07:08 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
	Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@...il.com>,
	intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Add sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read() helper

On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 03:52:01PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> When drivers expose a bin_attribute in sysfs which is backed by a buffer
> in memory, a common pattern is to set the @private and @size members in
> struct bin_attribute to the buffer's location and size.
> 
> The ->read() callback then merely consists of a single memcpy() call.
> It's not even necessary to perform bounds checks as these are already
> handled by sysfs_kf_bin_read().
> 
> However each driver is so far providing its own ->read() implementation.
> The pattern is sufficiently frequent to merit a public helper, so add
> sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read() as well as BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE_RO() and
> BIN_ATTR_SIMPLE_ADMIN_RO() macros to ease declaration of such
> bin_attributes and reduce LoC and .text section size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
> ---
>  fs/sysfs/file.c       | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/sysfs.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>