Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] pwm: meson: don't carry internal clock elements around

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On Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 10:02, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 12:16:53PM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> Pointers to the internal clock elements of the PWM are useless
>> after probe. There is no need to carry this around in the device
>> data. Just let devres deal with it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c
>> index 15c44185d784..fb113bc8da29 100644
>> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c
>> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c
>> @@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ struct meson_pwm_channel {
>>  	unsigned int hi;
>>  	unsigned int lo;
>>  
>> -	struct clk_mux mux;
>> -	struct clk_divider div;
>> -	struct clk_gate gate;
>>  	struct clk *clk;
>>  };
>>  
>> @@ -442,6 +439,13 @@ static int meson_pwm_init_channels(struct device *dev)
>>  		struct meson_pwm_channel *channel = &meson->channels[i];
>>  		struct clk_parent_data div_parent = {}, gate_parent = {};
>>  		struct clk_init_data init = {};
>> +		struct clk_divider *div;
>> +		struct clk_gate *gate;
>> +		struct clk_mux *mux;
>> +
>> +		mux = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*mux), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +		if (!mux)
>> +			return -ENOMEM;
>
> I don't like this change. While it doesn't increase the memory used, it
> fragments the used memory and increases the overhead of memory
> management and the number of devm allocations.
>
> Are these members of meson_pwm_channel in the way for anything later?

Not really. It is just not useful on the SoCs which do use it and not
used at all starting from s4/a1.

What about a dedicated struct for the 3 clock elements and a single
devm_kzalloc() instead of 3 ? 

>
> Best regards
> Uwe


-- 
Jerome





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