Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Unregister with the policy

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 06:07:37 EST


On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:12 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:02 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Currently the function cpufreq_cooling_register() returns a cooling
> > device pointer which is used back as a pointer to call the function
> > cpufreq_cooling_unregister(). Even if it is correct, it would make
> > sense to not leak the structure inside a cpufreq driver and keep the
> > code thermal code self-encapsulate. Moreover, that forces to add an
> > extra variable in each driver using this function.
> >
> > Instead of passing the cooling device to unregister, pass the policy.
> >
> > Because the cpufreq_cooling_unregister() function uses the policy to
> > unregister itself. The only purpose of the cooling device pointer is
> > to unregister the cpu cooling device.
> >
> > As there is no more need of this pointer, remove it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

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> > -void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
> > +void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> > {
> > struct cpufreq_cooling_device *cpufreq_cdev;
>
> I would do
>
> struct cpufreq_cooling_device *ccd, *cpufreq_cdev = NULL;
>
> and then ->

Not even that. ->

>
> > bool last;
> >
> > - if (!cdev)
> > - return;
> > -
> > - cpufreq_cdev = cdev->devdata;
> > -
> > mutex_lock(&cooling_list_lock);
> > - list_del(&cpufreq_cdev->node);
> > - /* Unregister the notifier for the last cpufreq cooling device */
> > - last = list_empty(&cpufreq_cdev_list);
> > + list_for_each_entry(cpufreq_cdev, &cpufreq_cdev_list, node) {
>
> -> list_for_each_entry(ccd, &cpufreq_cdev_list, node) {
> if (ccd->policy == policy) {
>
> > + if (cpufreq_cdev->policy == policy) {
>
> cpufreq_cdev = ccd;
>
> > + list_del(&cpufreq_cdev->node);
> > + last = list_empty(&cpufreq_cdev_list);
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + }
> > mutex_unlock(&cooling_list_lock);
>
> And here
>
> if (!cpufreq_cdev)
> return;

-> It would be sufficient to simply do:

if (cpufreq_cdev->policy != policy)
return;

here AFAICS.

>
> And that's it. No new functions needed.
>
> > - if (last)
> > - cpufreq_unregister_notifier(&thermal_cpufreq_notifier_block,
> > - CPUFREQ_POLICY_NOTIFIER);
> > -
>
> And I don't that the above needs to be changed at all in any case.
>
>
> > - thermal_cooling_device_unregister(cdev);
> > - ida_simple_remove(&cpufreq_ida, cpufreq_cdev->id);
> > - kfree(cpufreq_cdev->idle_time);
> > - kfree(cpufreq_cdev);
> > + if (cpufreq_cdev->policy == policy)
> > + __cpufreq_cooling_unregister(cpufreq_cdev, last);
> > }