linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] iio: common: ssp_sensors: drop conditional optimization for simplicity

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Message-ID: <Z2IMQXJC-A0TjQK2@vamoirid-laptop>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:41:53 +0100
From: Vasileios Amoiridis <vassilisamir@...il.com>
To: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>
Cc: jic23@...nel.org, lars@...afoo.de, krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org,
	nuno.sa@...log.com, u.kleine-koenig@...libre.com,
	abhashkumarjha123@...il.com, jstephan@...libre.com,
	jackoalan@...il.com, k.wrona@...sung.com, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] iio: common: ssp_sensors: drop conditional
 optimization for simplicity

On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 03:57:44PM -0600, David Lechner wrote:
> On 12/14/24 1:14 PM, Vasileios Amoiridis wrote:
> > Drop conditional in favor of always calculating the timestamp value.
> > This simplifies the code and allows to drop usage of internal private
> > variable "scan_timestamp" of the struct iio_dev.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vasileios Amoiridis <vassilisamir@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_iio.c | 9 +++------
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_iio.c b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_iio.c
> > index caa404edd9d0..6b86b5315694 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_iio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/common/ssp_sensors/ssp_iio.c
> > @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/iio/kfifo_buf.h>
> >  #include <linux/module.h>
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> > +#include <linux/unaligned.h>
> > +#include <linux/units.h>
> >  #include "ssp_iio_sensor.h"
> >  
> >  /**
> > @@ -70,7 +72,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(ssp_common_buffer_postdisable, "IIO_SSP_SENSORS");
> >  int ssp_common_process_data(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, void *buf,
> >  			    unsigned int len, int64_t timestamp)
> >  {
> > -	__le32 time;
> >  	int64_t calculated_time = 0;
> >  	struct ssp_sensor_data *spd = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> >  
> > @@ -82,11 +83,7 @@ int ssp_common_process_data(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, void *buf,
> >  	 */
> >  	memcpy(spd->buffer, buf, len);
> >  
> > -	if (indio_dev->scan_timestamp) {
> > -		memcpy(&time, &((char *)buf)[len], SSP_TIME_SIZE);
> > -		calculated_time =
> > -			timestamp + (int64_t)le32_to_cpu(time) * 1000000;
> > -	}
> > +	calculated_time = timestamp + get_unaligned_le32(buf + len) * MEGA;
> 
> Don't we still need to cast to 64 bit to avoid multiplication overflow?
>

Hi David,

Thanks for your message!

Aren't we already covered by the fact that MEGA is defined as an
unsigned long?

	include/linux/units.h:12:#define MEGA 1000000UL

Cheers,
Vasilis

> >  
> >  	return iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, spd->buffer,
> >  						  calculated_time);
>