On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 00:04 +0800, Chun-Kuang Hu wrote:
> Hi, Neal:
>
> Neal Liu <neal.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 於 2020年8月3日 週一 下午12:01寫道：
> >
> > Hi Chun-Kuang,
> >
> > On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 08:12 +0800, Chun-Kuang Hu wrote:
> > > Hi, Neal:
> > >
> > > This patch is for "mediatek,mt6779-devapc", so I think commit title
> > > should show the SoC ID.
> >
> > Okay, I'll change title to 'soc:mediatek: add mt6779 devapc driver'.
> >
> > >
> > > Neal Liu <neal.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 於 2020年7月29日 週三 下午4:29寫道：
> > > >
> > > > MediaTek bus fabric provides TrustZone security support and data
> > > > protection to prevent slaves from being accessed by unexpected
> > > > masters.
> > > > The security violation is logged and sent to the processor for
> > > > further analysis or countermeasures.
> > > >
> > > > Any occurrence of security violation would raise an interrupt, and
> > > > it will be handled by mtk-devapc driver. The violation
> > > > information is printed in order to find the murderer.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Neal Liu <neal.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +struct mtk_devapc_context {
> > > > + struct device *dev;
> > > > + u32 vio_idx_num;
> > > > + void __iomem *devapc_pd_base;
> > > > + struct mtk_devapc_vio_info *vio_info;
> > > > + const struct mtk_devapc_pd_offset *offset;
> > > > + const struct mtk_devapc_vio_dbgs *vio_dbgs;
> > > > +};
> > >
> > > I think this structure should separate the constant part. The constant part is:
> > >
> > > struct mtk_devapc_data {
> > > const u32 vio_idx_num;
> > > const struct mtk_devapc_pd_offset *offset; /* I would like to
> > > remove struct mtk_devapc_pd_offset and directly put its member into
> > > this structure */
> > > const struct mtk_devapc_vio_dbgs *vio_dbgs; /* This may disappear */
> > > };
> > >
> > > And the context is:
> > >
> > > struct mtk_devapc_context {
> > > struct device *dev;
> > > void __iomem *devapc_pd_base;
> > > const struct mtk_devapc_data *data;
> > > };
> > >
> > > So when you define this, you would not waste memory to store non-constant data.
> > >
> > > static const struct mtk_devapc_data devapc_mt6779 = {
> > > .vio_idx_num = 510,
> > > .offset = &mt6779_pd_offset,
> > > .vio_dbgs = &mt6779_vio_dbgs,
> > > };
> > >
> >
> > Sorry, I still don't understand why this refactoring will not waste
> > memory to store non-constant data. Could you explain more details?
> > To my understanding, we still also have to allocate memory to store dev
> > & devapc_pd_base.
>
> In some situation, it is. You make the non-constant data a global
> variable. I think the context data should be dynamic allocated. If
> this driver is not probed, the non-constant data occupy the memory.
>
I got your point! In this case, we can save these 2 data structure
space, right?
struct device *dev;
void __iomem *devapc_pd_base;
I'll refactoring this data structures on next patch. Thanks !
> Regards,
> Chun-Kuang.
>
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Chun-Kuang.
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +#endif /* __MTK_DEVAPC_H__ */
> > > > --
> > > > 1.7.9.5
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