Re: [PATCH v9 2/2] EDAC: al-mc-edac: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs Memory Controller EDAC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:17:31PM +0300, Shenhar, Talel wrote:
> Let me know what you think.

Well, devm_al_mc_edac_free() devm_al_mc_edac_del() look like useless
wrappers to me and can be removed and you can use edac_mc_del_mc() and
edac_mc_free() directly. But then you need to cast them in an ugly way
so that it builds:

        ret = devm_add_action(&pdev->dev, (void (*)(void *data))edac_mc_free, mci);

I guess we can leave them as is and then lift them into the EDAC core if
someone else wants to do the same devm_* thing.

al_mc_edac_get_scrub_mode() doesn't need a prefix because it is used
only once and the compiler is simply inlining it so you can forget the
stack trace visibility:

$ readelf -s drivers/edac/al_mc_edac.ko | grep scrub
$

The others are fine, I guess, since they're function pointers and cannot be
inlined as such so you want them prefixed:

$ readelf -s drivers/edac/al_mc_edac.ko | grep al_mc_edac
    23: 00000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS al_mc_edac.c
    25: 00000000     4 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 devm_al_mc_edac_free
    27: 00000004     4 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 devm_al_mc_edac_del
    31: 00000124    24 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 al_mc_edac_irq_handler_ce
    35: 00000260    24 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 al_mc_edac_irq_handler_ue
    36: 00000278    56 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 al_mc_edac_check
    37: 000002b0   680 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 al_mc_edac_probe
    47: 00000000    20 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    3 al_mc_edac_driver_init
    51: 00000000    12 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    5 al_mc_edac_driver_exit
    53: 00000000   392 OBJECT  LOCAL  DEFAULT   16 al_mc_edac_of_match
    59: 00000000   104 OBJECT  LOCAL  DEFAULT   20 al_mc_edac_driver
    61: 00000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS al_mc_edac.mod.c
    88: 00000000   392 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   16 __mod_of__al_mc_edac_of_m

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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