On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 09:44:24AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> The ast driver keeps a backup copy of the DP501 encoder's firmware. This
> patch adds managed release of the allocated memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de>
We can't really do anything with the firmware after the device is gone, so
I think this is one of the very rare exceptions where devm_kzalloc is the
right thing to do! Totally minor nit though, since either way it gets
cleaned up. But I think conceptually cleaner.
-Daniel
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c
> index e3b7748335a3..67e20727d82d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_main.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
> #include <drm/drm_drv.h>
> #include <drm/drm_gem.h>
> #include <drm/drm_gem_vram_helper.h>
> +#include <drm/drm_managed.h>
>
> #include "ast_drv.h"
>
> @@ -231,11 +232,11 @@ static int ast_detect_chip(struct drm_device *dev, bool
> *need_post)
> ast->tx_chip_type = AST_TX_SIL164;
> break;
> case 0x08:
> - ast->dp501_fw_addr = kzalloc(32*1024, GFP_KERNEL);
> + ast->dp501_fw_addr = drmm_kzalloc(dev, 32*1024,
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (ast->dp501_fw_addr) {
> /* backup firmware */
> if (ast_backup_fw(dev, ast->dp501_fw_addr,
> 32*1024)) {
> - kfree(ast->dp501_fw_addr);
> + drmm_kfree(dev, ast->dp501_fw_addr);
> ast->dp501_fw_addr = NULL;
> }
> }
> @@ -444,6 +445,4 @@ void ast_device_destroy(struct ast_private *ast)
> {
> /* enable standard VGA decode */
> ast_set_index_reg(ast, AST_IO_CRTC_PORT, 0xa1, 0x04);
> -
> - kfree(ast->dp501_fw_addr);
> }
> --
> 2.27.0
>
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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