Re: [PATCH v7 3/5] dma-buf: heaps: Add system heap to dmabuf heaps

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:06:17 EST


> +struct system_heap {
> + struct dma_heap *heap;
> +} sys_heap;

It seems like this structure could be removed and if would improve
the code flow.

> +static struct dma_heap_ops system_heap_ops = {
> + .allocate = system_heap_allocate,
> +};
> +
> +static int system_heap_create(void)
> +{
> + struct dma_heap_export_info exp_info;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + exp_info.name = "system_heap";
> + exp_info.ops = &system_heap_ops;
> + exp_info.priv = &sys_heap;
> +
> + sys_heap.heap = dma_heap_add(&exp_info);
> + if (IS_ERR(sys_heap.heap))
> + ret = PTR_ERR(sys_heap.heap);
> +
> + return ret;

The data structures here seem a little odd. I think you want to:

- mark all dma_heap_ops instanes consts, as we generally do that for
all structures containing function pointers
- move the name into dma_heap_ops.
- remove the dma_heap_export_info structure, which is a bit pointless
- don't bother setting a private data, as you don't need it.
If other heaps need private data I'd suggest to switch to embedding
the dma_heap structure into containing structure insted so that you
can use container_of to get at it.
- also why is the free callback passed as a callback rather than
kept in dma_heap_ops, next to the paired alloc one?