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Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements

From Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements
Date 2017-06-20 12:50 +0200
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2017-06-20 12:41 GMT+02:00 Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>:
> On 20/06/17 11:31, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> 2017-05-31 18:06 GMT+02:00 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>:
>>> This series is a follow-up to [1].
>>>
>>> Some users of irq_alloc_generic_chip() are modules which can be
>>> removed (e.g. gpio-ml-ioh) but have no means of freeing the allocated
>>> generic chip.
>>>
>>> Last time it was suggested to provide irq_destroy_generic_chip() which
>>> would undo both irq_remove_generic_chip() and irq_alloc_generic_chip().
>>>
>>> This functionality is provided by patch 2/5 with 1/5 adding the option
>>> to only free the allocated memory.
>>>
>>> Patch 3/5 exports a function that will be used in the devres variant
>>> of irq_alloc_generic_chip().
>>>
>>> Patches 4/5 and 5/5 add resource managed versions of
>>> irq_alloc_generic_chip() & irq_setup_generic_chip(). They will be used
>>> in drivers where applicable. Device resources are released in reverse
>>> order so it's ok to call devm_irq_alloc_generic_chip() and then
>>> devm_irq_setup_generic_chip().
>>>
>>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/8/550
>>>
>>> Bartosz Golaszewski (5):
>>>   irq: generic-chip: provide irq_free_generic_chip()
>>>   irq: generic-chip: provide irq_destroy_generic_chip()
>>>   irq: generic-chip: export irq_init_generic_chip() locally
>>>   irq: generic-chip: provide devm_irq_alloc_generic_chip()
>>>   irq: generic-chip: provide devm_irq_setup_generic_chip()
>>>
>>>  Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt |  2 +
>>>  include/linux/irq.h                   | 22 +++++++++
>>>  kernel/irq/devres.c                   | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  kernel/irq/generic-chip.c             |  7 ++-
>>>  kernel/irq/internals.h                | 11 +++++
>>>  5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> 2.9.3
>>>
>>
>> Ping for v4.13.
>>
>> Is there any reason not to merge it?
>
> There was a kbuild report from June 1st with worrying warnings on x86_64
> (though I couldn't see how that was related to these patches). What's
> the status of that?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
> --
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

Snap, I looked at it, determined that it was just a header included in
include/linux/irq.h (unrelated to the patch) and forgot to comment
about it.

I've never seen this warning on my setup and don't see it now with rc6.

Thanks,
Bartosz

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Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-06-20 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-06-20 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management  improvements Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-06-20 16:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-06-21 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/5] irq: generic-chip: resource management improvements Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> - 2017-06-20 12:50 +0200

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