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flexible-array member
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
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Use the appropriate SPDX license identifier in the Hwspinlock core
driver source files and drop the previous boilerplate license text.
Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]>
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Hardware Spinlock devices usually contain numerous locks (known
devices today support between 32 to 256 locks).
Originally hwspinlock core required drivers to register (and later,
when needed, unregister) each lock separately.
That worked, but required hwspinlocks drivers to do a bit extra work
when they were probed/removed.
This patch changes hwspin_lock_{un}register() to allow a bank of
hwspinlocks to be {un}registered in a single invocation.
A new 'struct hwspinlock_device', which contains an array of 'struct
hwspinlock's is now being passed to the core upon registration (so
instead of wrapping each struct hwspinlock, a priv member has been added
to allow drivers to piggyback their private data with each hwspinlock).
While at it, several per-lock members were moved to be per-device:
1. struct device *dev
2. struct hwspinlock_ops *ops
In addition, now that the array of locks is handled by the core,
there's no reason to maintain a per-lock 'int id' member: the id of the
lock anyway equals to its index in the bank's array plus the bank's
base_id.
Remove this per-lock id member too, and instead use a simple pointers
arithmetic to derive it.
As a result of this change, hwspinlocks drivers are now simpler and smaller
(about %20 code reduction) and the memory footprint of the hwspinlock
framework is reduced.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
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Use struct device_driver's owner member instead of asking drivers to
explicitly pass the owner again.
This simplifies drivers and also save some memory, since there's no
point now in maintaining a separate owner pointer per hwspinlock.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
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Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework.
Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data
that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no
alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion
operations.
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Kanigeri <[email protected]>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>
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