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Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Vaishali Thakkar
> <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In the function cpufreq_get_requested_power, the memory allocated
>> for load_cpu is live within the function only. And after the
>> allocation it is immediately freed with devm_kfree. There is no
>> need to allocate memory for load_cpu with devm function so replace
>> devm_kcalloc with kcalloc and devm_kfree with kfree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> This patch is having one checkpatch.pl warning which suggests that
>> kfree(NULL) is safe. But I think leaving code with if is nice
>> because it reflects the fact that kcalloc was under an if. So, I
>> have ignored checkpatch. If maintainer wants me to go for changing
>> things, I am fine with it too.
>
> I will rather ask you to do this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> index 620dcd405ff6..a04055ea5d94 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> @@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ static int cpufreq_get_requested_power(struct
> thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
>         if (trace_thermal_power_cpu_get_power_enabled()) {
>                 u32 ncpus = cpumask_weight(&cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus);
>
> -               load_cpu = devm_kcalloc(&cdev->device, ncpus, sizeof(*load_cpu),
> -                                       GFP_KERNEL);
> +               load_cpu = kcalloc(&cdev->device, ncpus, sizeof(*load_cpu),
> +                                  GFP_KERNEL);
>         }

Sorry. I forgot to ask you one more thing. devm_kcalloc takes one more
argument then
kcalloc. So, the change I did is correct I guess. And I'm not sure why
you suggested this
change? I assume you just want me to correct in my patch for last
argument. But that line
also comes under 80 characters.

>         for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus) {
> @@ -607,22 +607,20 @@ static int cpufreq_get_requested_power(struct
> thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
>
>         dynamic_power = get_dynamic_power(cpufreq_device, freq);
>         ret = get_static_power(cpufreq_device, tz, freq, &static_power);
> -       if (ret) {
> -               if (load_cpu)
> -                       devm_kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu);
> -               return ret;
> -       }
> +       if (ret)
> +               goto free;
>
> -       if (load_cpu) {
> +       if (load_cpu)
>                 trace_thermal_power_cpu_get_power(
>                         &cpufreq_device->allowed_cpus,
>                         freq, load_cpu, i, dynamic_power, static_power);
>
> -               devm_kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu);
> -       }
> -
>         *power = static_power + dynamic_power;
> -       return 0;
> +
> +free:
> +       kfree(&cdev->device, load_cpu);
> +
> +       return ret;
>  }



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Vaishali
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[PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 08:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-08-19 10:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 13:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 14:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-08-19 14:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2015-08-27 04:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] thermal: cpu_cooling: Remove usage of devm functions Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com> - 2015-08-27 11:00 +0200

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