On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:44 PM Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 14/10/2020 05:06, Nicolas Boichat wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:29 AM Wenbin Mei <wenbin.mei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 17:10 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote: > >>> > >>> On 12/10/2020 14:45, Wenbin Mei wrote: > >>>> MT8192 msdc is an independent sub system, we need control more bus > >>>> clocks for it. > >>>> Add support for the additional subsys clocks to allow it to be > >>>> configured appropriately. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Wenbin Mei <wenbin.mei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [...] > >>>> + host->bulk_clks[0].id = "pclk_cg"; > >>>> + host->bulk_clks[1].id = "axi_cg"; > >>>> + host->bulk_clks[2].id = "ahb_cg"; > >>> > >>> That looks at least suspicious. The pointers of id point to some strings defined > >>> in the function. Aren't they out of scope once msdc_of_clock_parse() has returned? > >>> > >> These constants are not in stack range, so they will not be lost. > >> And I have confirmed it after msdc_of_clock_parse() has returned, these > >> ids still exist. > > > > Yes I guess the constants end up in .rodata (or similar section), but > > I'm not sure if this is absolutely guaranteed. > > > > In any case, this is a commonly used pattern, so I'd hope it's fine > > (just a sample, there are more): > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-qcom.c#L266 > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c#L4638 > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/mfd/madera-core.c#L467 > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c#L675 > > > > Alright, then this looks good, sorry for the noise! To close this in more satisfying way, I asked internally, and +Pi-Hsun Shih digged out this answer: """ C11 standard 6.4.5 String literals says: "The multibyte character sequence is then used to initialize an array of >>static storage duration<< and length just sufficient to contain the sequence" """ > Matthias