Re: [PATCH] parisc/parport_gsc: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API

From: Christophe JAILLET
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 15:39:22 EST


Le 24/08/2021 à 12:24, Robin Murphy a écrit :
On 2021-08-23 22:30, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
The wrappers in include/linux/pci-dma-compat.h should go away.

The patch has been generated with the coccinelle script below.

@@
expression e1, e2, e3, e4;
@@
-    pci_free_consistent(e1, e2, e3, e4)
+    dma_free_coherent(&e1->dev, e2, e3, e4)

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
If needed, see post from Christoph Hellwig on the kernel-janitors ML:
    https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=158745678307186&w=4

This has *NOT* been compile tested because I don't have the needed
configuration.
ssdfs
---
  drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c | 5 ++---
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c
index 1e43b3f399a8..db912fa6b6df 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c
@@ -390,9 +390,8 @@ static int __exit parport_remove_chip(struct parisc_device *dev)
          if (p->irq != PARPORT_IRQ_NONE)
              free_irq(p->irq, p);
          if (priv->dma_buf)
-            pci_free_consistent(priv->dev, PAGE_SIZE,
-                        priv->dma_buf,
-                        priv->dma_handle);
+            dma_free_coherent(&priv->dev->dev, PAGE_SIZE,
+                      priv->dma_buf, priv->dma_handle);

Hmm, seeing a free on its own made me wonder where the corresponding alloc was, but on closer inspection it seems there isn't one. AFAICS priv->dma_buf is only ever assigned with NULL (and priv->dev doesn't seem to be assigned at all), so this could likely just be removed. In fact it looks like all the references to DMA in this driver are just copy-paste from parport_pc and unused.

Robin.


Agreed. I had the same reaction, but as the patch should basically be a no-op, it looked safe, even if non-optimal.

Looking at parport_gsc_private, pword, readIntrThreshold and writeIntrThreshold also look unused.

My own goal is to remove the 'pci_free_consistent()' call in order to remove a deprecated API.

As said, I can not compile this driver.
I could send a blind fix that axes 'pci_free_consistent()' and remove some fields in parport_gsc_private, but I'm not sure that it is the best way to go.

Do you prefer to look at it by yourself or do you prefer to compile test my trials?


CJ



          kfree (p->private_data);
          parport_put_port(p);
          kfree (ops); /* hope no-one cached it */