Hi Guennadi, On Monday 12 September 2011 12:55:46 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Currently only very few drivers actually use video_device nodes, embedded > in struct v4l2_subdev. Allocate these nodes dynamically for those drivers > to save memory for the rest. > > Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> > --- > > v3: addressed comments from Laurent Pinchart - thanks Thanks for the patch. Just one small comment below. > 1. switch to using a device-release method, instead of freeing directly in > v4l2_device_unregister_subdev() > > 2. switch to using drvdata instead of a wrapper struct > > drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c | 41 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- include/media/v4l2-subdev.h | > 4 +- > 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c > b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c index c72856c..9bf3d70 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c > +++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-device.c > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > #include <linux/types.h> > #include <linux/ioctl.h> > #include <linux/i2c.h> > +#include <linux/slab.h> > #if defined(CONFIG_SPI) > #include <linux/spi/spi.h> > #endif > @@ -191,6 +192,13 @@ int v4l2_device_register_subdev(struct v4l2_device > *v4l2_dev, } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_register_subdev); > > +void v4l2_device_release_subdev_node(struct video_device *vdev) > +{ > + struct v4l2_subdev *sd = video_get_drvdata(vdev); > + sd->devnode = NULL; > + kfree(vdev); > +} > + > int v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev) > { > struct video_device *vdev; > @@ -204,22 +212,42 @@ int v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes(struct > v4l2_device *v4l2_dev) if (!(sd->flags & V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE)) > continue; > > - vdev = &sd->devnode; > + vdev = kzalloc(sizeof(*vdev), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!vdev) { > + err = -ENOMEM; > + goto clean_up; > + } > + > + video_set_drvdata(vdev, sd); > strlcpy(vdev->name, sd->name, sizeof(vdev->name)); > vdev->v4l2_dev = v4l2_dev; > vdev->fops = &v4l2_subdev_fops; > - vdev->release = video_device_release_empty; > + vdev->release = v4l2_device_release_subdev_node; > vdev->ctrl_handler = sd->ctrl_handler; > err = __video_register_device(vdev, VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV, -1, 1, > sd->owner); > - if (err < 0) > - return err; > + if (err < 0) { > + kfree(vdev); > + goto clean_up; > + } > + get_device(&vdev->dev); Is get_device() (and the corresponding put_device() calls below) required ? I thought device_register() initialized the reference count to 1 (don't take my word for it though). > #if defined(CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER) > sd->entity.v4l.major = VIDEO_MAJOR; > sd->entity.v4l.minor = vdev->minor; > #endif > + sd->devnode = vdev; > } > return 0; > + > +clean_up: > + list_for_each_entry(sd, &v4l2_dev->subdevs, list) { > + if (!sd->devnode) > + break; > + video_unregister_device(sd->devnode); > + put_device(&sd->devnode->dev); > + } > + > + return err; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes); > > @@ -245,7 +273,10 @@ void v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(struct v4l2_subdev > *sd) if (v4l2_dev->mdev) > media_device_unregister_entity(&sd->entity); > #endif > - video_unregister_device(&sd->devnode); > + if (sd->devnode) { > + video_unregister_device(sd->devnode); > + put_device(&sd->devnode->dev); > + } > module_put(sd->owner); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_device_unregister_subdev); > diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h > index 257da1a..5dd049a 100644 > --- a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h > +++ b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h > @@ -534,13 +534,13 @@ struct v4l2_subdev { > void *dev_priv; > void *host_priv; > /* subdev device node */ > - struct video_device devnode; > + struct video_device *devnode; > }; > > #define media_entity_to_v4l2_subdev(ent) \ > container_of(ent, struct v4l2_subdev, entity) > #define vdev_to_v4l2_subdev(vdev) \ > - container_of(vdev, struct v4l2_subdev, devnode) > + video_get_drvdata(vdev) > > /* > * Used for storing subdev information per file handle -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html