[PATCH 34/34] drm/bridge: panel: convert to devm_drm_bridge_alloc() API

From: Luca Ceresoli
Date: Mon Apr 07 2025 - 11:42:29 EST


This is the new API for allocating DRM bridges.

The devm lifetime management of this driver is peculiar. The underlying
device for the panel_bridge is the panel, and the devm lifetime is tied the
panel device (panel->dev). However the panel_bridge allocation is not
performed by the panel driver, but rather by a separate entity (typically
the previous bridge in the encoder chain).

Thus when that separate entoty is destroyed, the panel_bridge is not
removed automatically by devm, so it is rather done explicitly by calling
drm_panel_bridge_remove(). This is the function that does devm_kfree() the
panel_bridge in current code, so update it as well to put the bridge
reference instead.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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---
drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c
index 79b009ab9396048eac57ad47631a902e949d77c6..ddd1e91970d09b93aa64f50cd9155939a12a2c6f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/panel.c
@@ -287,15 +287,14 @@ struct drm_bridge *drm_panel_bridge_add_typed(struct drm_panel *panel,
if (!panel)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

- panel_bridge = devm_kzalloc(panel->dev, sizeof(*panel_bridge),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!panel_bridge)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ panel_bridge = devm_drm_bridge_alloc(panel->dev, struct panel_bridge, bridge,
+ &panel_bridge_bridge_funcs);
+ if (IS_ERR(panel_bridge))
+ return (void *)panel_bridge;

panel_bridge->connector_type = connector_type;
panel_bridge->panel = panel;

- panel_bridge->bridge.funcs = &panel_bridge_bridge_funcs;
panel_bridge->bridge.of_node = panel->dev->of_node;
panel_bridge->bridge.ops = DRM_BRIDGE_OP_MODES;
panel_bridge->bridge.type = connector_type;
@@ -327,7 +326,7 @@ void drm_panel_bridge_remove(struct drm_bridge *bridge)
panel_bridge = drm_bridge_to_panel_bridge(bridge);

drm_bridge_remove(bridge);
- devm_kfree(panel_bridge->panel->dev, bridge);
+ devm_drm_put_bridge(panel_bridge->panel->dev, bridge);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_panel_bridge_remove);


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