[alsa-devel] [PATCH v6 1/3] clk: x86: Add Atom PMC platform clocks

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

Hi Stephen,

can you elaborate on the last comment?

thanks,

-Pierre


On 12/13/2016 05:25 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
>>> +                                       void __iomem *base,
>>> +                                       const char **parent_names,
>>> +                                       int num_parents)
>>> +{
>>> +       struct clk_plt *pclk;
>>> +       struct clk_init_data init;
>>> +       int ret;
>>> +
>>> +       pclk = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pclk), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> +       if (!pclk)
>>> +               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>>> +
>>> +       init.name =  kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s%d", PLT_CLK_NAME_BASE, id);
>> devm_kasprintf()
> Please no.
>
>>> +       init.ops = &plt_clk_ops;
>>> +       init.flags = 0;
>>> +       init.parent_names = parent_names;
>>> +       init.num_parents = num_parents;
>>> +
>>> +       pclk->hw.init = &init;
>>> +       pclk->reg = base + id * PMC_CLK_CTL_SIZE;
>>> +       spin_lock_init(&pclk->lock);
>>> +
>>> +       ret = devm_clk_hw_register(&pdev->dev, &pclk->hw);
>>> +       if (ret)
>>> +               goto err_free_init;
>>> +
>>> +       pclk->lookup = clkdev_hw_create(&pclk->hw, init.name, NULL);
>>> +       if (!pclk->lookup) {
>>> +               ret = -ENOMEM;
>>> +               goto err_free_init;
>>> +       }
>>> +
>>> +       kfree(init.name);
>> devm_kfree();
> It's all local to this function, devm isn't helping anything.
> Having one kfree() would be good though. And using init.name for
> the clkdev lookup is probably wrong and should be replaced with
> something more generic along with an associated device name.
I am not sure I understand this last comment.
init.name is not a constant, it's made of the "pmc_plt_clk_" string 
concatenated with an id which directly maps to which hardware clock is 
registered. Clients use devm_clk_get() with a "pmc_plt_clk_<n>" argument.
>