RE: [PATCH 4/9] staging: fsl-mc: don't use devres api for refcounted objects

[Stuart Yoder]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx [mailto:laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 5:43 AM
> To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; agraf@xxxxxxx; arnd@xxxxxxxx; Ioana
> Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@xxxxxxx>; Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@xxxxxxx>; Bharat Bhushan
> <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxx>; Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@xxxxxxx>; Catalin Horghidan
> <catalin.horghidan@xxxxxxx>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@xxxxxxx>; Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@xxxxxxx>; Laurentiu
> Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH 4/9] staging: fsl-mc: don't use devres api for refcounted objects
> 
> From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Mixing two memory management systems, in this case
> managed device resource api and refcounted objects
> is a bad idea. Lifetime of an object is controlled
> by its refcount so allocating it with other apis
> that have their own lifetime control is not ok.
> Drop devm_*() apis in favor of plain allocations.
> 
> While at it, let's drop the slab cache for objects
> until we actually have proof that it improves
> performance. This allows for some code cleanup.

Those 2 changes (dropping devm_* apis and slab cache
changes) are 2 orthogonal things, right?  It would
be better to split those into separate patches.  Mixing
them makes it harder to review.

> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/fsl-mc-bus.c | 43 +++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/fsl-mc-bus.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/fsl-mc-bus.c
> index 6601bde..c493427 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/fsl-mc-bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/fsl-mc-bus.c
> @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
>  #include "fsl-mc-private.h"
>  #include "dprc-cmd.h"
> 
> -static struct kmem_cache *mc_dev_cache;
> -
>  /**
>   * Default DMA mask for devices on a fsl-mc bus
>   */
> @@ -422,17 +420,12 @@ bool fsl_mc_is_root_dprc(struct device *dev)
>  static void fsl_mc_device_release(struct device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev = to_fsl_mc_device(dev);
> -	struct fsl_mc_bus *mc_bus = NULL;
> 
>  	kfree(mc_dev->regions);
> -
> -	if (strcmp(mc_dev->obj_desc.type, "dprc") == 0)
> -		mc_bus = to_fsl_mc_bus(mc_dev);
> -
> -	if (mc_bus)
> -		devm_kfree(mc_dev->dev.parent, mc_bus);
> +	if (!strcmp(mc_dev->obj_desc.type, "dprc"))
> +		kfree(to_fsl_mc_bus(mc_dev));
>  	else
> -		kmem_cache_free(mc_dev_cache, mc_dev);
> +		kfree(mc_dev);
>  }
> 
>  /**
> @@ -457,7 +450,7 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct dprc_obj_desc *obj_desc,
>  		/*
>  		 * Allocate an MC bus device object:
>  		 */
> -		mc_bus = devm_kzalloc(parent_dev, sizeof(*mc_bus), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		mc_bus = kzalloc(sizeof(*mc_bus), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!mc_bus)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> 
> @@ -466,7 +459,7 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct dprc_obj_desc *obj_desc,
>  		/*
>  		 * Allocate a regular fsl_mc_device object:
>  		 */
> -		mc_dev = kmem_cache_zalloc(mc_dev_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		mc_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*mc_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!mc_dev)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
> @@ -561,10 +554,7 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct dprc_obj_desc *obj_desc,
> 
>  error_cleanup_dev:
>  	kfree(mc_dev->regions);
> -	if (mc_bus)
> -		devm_kfree(parent_dev, mc_bus);
> -	else
> -		kmem_cache_free(mc_dev_cache, mc_dev);
> +	kfree(mc_bus ? (void *)mc_bus : (void *)mc_dev);
> 
>  	return error;
>  }
> @@ -578,23 +568,11 @@ int fsl_mc_device_add(struct dprc_obj_desc *obj_desc,
>   */
>  void fsl_mc_device_remove(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev)
>  {
> -	struct fsl_mc_bus *mc_bus = NULL;
> -
> -	kfree(mc_dev->regions);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * The device-specific remove callback will get invoked by device_del()
>  	 */
>  	device_del(&mc_dev->dev);
>  	put_device(&mc_dev->dev);
> -
> -	if (strcmp(mc_dev->obj_desc.type, "dprc") == 0)
> -		mc_bus = to_fsl_mc_bus(mc_dev);
> -
> -	if (mc_bus)
> -		devm_kfree(mc_dev->dev.parent, mc_bus);
> -	else
> -		kmem_cache_free(mc_dev_cache, mc_dev);
>  }

The above changes in fsl_mc_device_remove(), I think 
actually belong in patch #3 of this series.

Stuart