linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] drm/mipi-dsi: Reduce driver bloat of mipi_dsi_*_write

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Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 09:59:36 -0700
From: Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, 
	Cong Yang <yangcong5@...qin.corp-partner.google.com>, Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...gle.com>, 
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, 
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>, 
	Joel Selvaraj <jo@...amily.in>, lvzhaoxiong@...qin.corp-partner.google.com, 
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, 
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, 
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] drm/mipi-dsi: Reduce driver bloat of mipi_dsi_*_write_seq()

Hi,

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 1:23 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:43 PM Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> > Through a cooperative effort between Hsin-Yi Wang and Dmitry
> > Baryshkov, we have realized the dev_err() in the
> > mipi_dsi_*_write_seq() macros was causing quite a bit of bloat to the
> > kernel. Let's hoist this call into drm_mipi_dsi.c by adding a "chatty"
> > version of the functions that includes the print. While doing this,
> > add a bit more comments to these macros making it clear that they
> > print errors and also that they return out of _the caller's_ function.
>
> This doesn't really explain why this takes so much less space.
>
> Please add some explanation like that "the macro gets inlined
> and thus the error report string gets inlined into every call to
> mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() and mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq(),
> by using a call to a "chatty" function, the usage is reduced to one
> string in the chatty function and a function call at the invoking
> site".
>
> With some explanation like that +/- added in:
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Sure. I'll plan on not sending out a v4 (unless I need to for some
other reason) and I can just add your wording in when applying. Yell
if you want me to do something different.

-Doug