Re: [PATCH 0/4] regulator: add and use a helper for setting supply names

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 07:06:14 EST


pt., 30 sie 2019 o 10:15 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:17:36AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There are ~80 users of regulator bulk APIs that set the supply names
> > in a for loop before using the bulk helpers.
> >
> > This series proposes to add a helper function for setting supply names
> > and uses it in a couple tegra drivers. If accepted: a coccinelle script
> > should be easy to develop that would address this in other drivers.
> >
> > Bartosz Golaszewski (4):
> > regulator: provide regulator_bulk_set_supply_names()
> > ahci: tegra: use regulator_bulk_set_supply_names()
> > phy: tegra: use regulator_bulk_set_supply_names()
> > usb: host: xhci-tegra: use regulator_bulk_set_supply_names()
> >
> > drivers/ata/ahci_tegra.c | 6 +++---
> > drivers/phy/tegra/xusb.c | 6 +++---
> > drivers/regulator/helpers.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/usb/host/xhci-tegra.c | 5 +++--
> > include/linux/regulator/consumer.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> The diffstat here suggests that this isn't really helpful. Even if you
> subtract the regulator code that adds the new helper, you actually have
> a zero diffstat (and a positive one in one case).
>

You are right when it comes to LoC stats, but bloat-o-meter says it's
quite useful when it comes to actual code size.

This is what we're adding:

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter drivers/regulator/helpers.o.old
drivers/regulator/helpers.o
add/remove: 3/0 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 72/0 (72)
Function old new delta
regulator_bulk_set_supply_names - 32 +32
__kstrtab_regulator_bulk_set_supply_names - 32 +32
__ksymtab_regulator_bulk_set_supply_names - 8 +8
Total: Before=4438, After=4510, chg +1.62%

And this is what we're removing just from one driver:

$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ./drivers/ata/ahci_tegra.o.old
./drivers/ata/ahci_tegra.o
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-52 (-52)
Function old new delta
tegra_ahci_probe 1688 1636 -52
Total: Before=3474, After=3422, chg -1.50%

> Instead, why don't we take this one step further and roll a bit more of
> the boilerplate into the new helper, something along these lines:
>
> struct regulator_bulk_data *
> devm_regulator_bulk_get_from_names(struct device *dev,
> const char * const *supply_names,
> unsigned int num_supplies)
> {
> struct regulator_bulk_data *data;
> unsigned int i;
> int err;
>
> data = devm_kcalloc(dev, num_supplies, sizeof(*data));
> if (!data)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> for (i = 0; i < num_supplies; i++)
> data[i].supply = supply_names[i];
>
> err = devm_regulator_bulk_get(dev, num_supplies, data);
> if (err < 0)
> return ERR_PTR(err);
>
> return data;
> }
>
> That seems to be still a very common pattern and gets rid of a lot more
> boilerplate, so your diffstat will actually start to be negative at some
> point.
>

This looks like a good candidate for the next step, but I'd say this
change is still worth applying.

Bart

> I suppose one could add a non-managed variant for this as well, but I'm
> counting 6 uses of regulator_bulk_get() vs. ~140 uses of the managed
> variant, so I'm not sure it's worth it.
>
> Thierry