[RFC 3/4] lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resource

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Oct 24 07:56:12 EDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:42:08AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
> request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
> duplication, but also a number of similar error strings and inconsistent
> error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function which simplifies
> remapping a resource and make it hard to do something wrong.
> 
> A few notes on design choices:
> 
> * not 100% sure on ENOENT when the resource is invalid. Seems to be frequently
>   used currently and fits "somehow"
> 
> * the remapped pointer is a function argument and not a return value. This is to
>   save users from forgetting to use IS_ERR/PTR_ERR.
> 
> * the usage of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE enforces calling the correct ioremap-variant.
>   A number of drivers miss to call the _nocache-version, although they should do.
> 
> * the new function is not named 'devm_ioremap_resource' because it does more than
>   just ioremap, namely request_mem_region. I didn't want to create implicit
>   knowledge here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt |    1 +
>  include/linux/device.h                |    3 ++
>  lib/devres.c                          |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
> index badd964..3aeb4f4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
> @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ IOMAP
>    devm_ioremap()
>    devm_ioremap_nocache()
>    devm_iounmap()
> +  devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr() : checks resource, requests region, ioremaps
>    pcim_iomap()
>    pcim_iounmap()
>    pcim_iomap_table()	: array of mapped addresses indexed by BAR
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index c20dfbf..82a621c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ extern int devres_release_group(struct device *dev, void *id);
>  extern void *devm_kzalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);
>  extern void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, void *p);
>  
> +int __must_check devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr(struct device *dev,
> +			struct resource *res, void __iomem **dest);
> +
>  struct device_dma_parameters {
>  	/*
>  	 * a low level driver may set these to teach IOMMU code about
> diff --git a/lib/devres.c b/lib/devres.c
> index 78777ae..970588b 100644
> --- a/lib/devres.c
> +++ b/lib/devres.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,58 @@ void devm_iounmap(struct device *dev, void __iomem *addr)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_iounmap);
>  
> +/**
> + * devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr - Check, request region, and ioremap resource

Kernel doc format should have '()' for functions is:
/*
 * devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr() - Check, request region, and ioremap resource

> + * @dev: Generic device to handle the resource for
> + * @res: resource to be handled
> + * @dest: Pointer to pointer which carries the remapped address
> + *
> + * Takes all necessary steps to ioremap a mem resource. Uses managed device, so
> + * everything is undone on driver detach. Checks arguments, so you can feed
> + * it the result from e.g. platform_get_resource() directly:
> + *
> + *	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> + *	err = devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr(&pdev->dev, res, &priv->regs);
> + *	if (err)
> + *		return err;
> + */
> +int __must_check devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr(struct device *dev,
> +			struct resource *res, void __iomem **dest)

I'm not happy with the API.  I understand trying to avoid losing the
error code, but passing back the value in a passed in pointer is
rather horrible to use (as I discovered with the
of_property_read_u32() patches) and it becomes too easy to improperly
use it.

I'd argue that the users of this probably really won't care about the
actual error code.  If this function fails, then things are rather
horribly wrong, and it would be entirely appropriate to do rely on the
dev_err() to inform the user of the actual error code.

So, just return the mapped (void __iomem *) value after requesting and
mapping the region, and make exceptional situations exceptional.  :-)

Otherwise, I'm quite happy to see this helper.  Good work!

g.

> +{
> +	resource_size_t size;
> +	const char *name;
> +
> +	BUG_ON(!dev || !dest);
> +
> +	*dest = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!res || resource_type(res) != IORESOURCE_MEM) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "invalid resource\n");
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +	}
> +
> +	size = resource_size(res);
> +	name = res->name ?: dev_name(dev);
> +
> +	if (!devm_request_mem_region(dev, res->start, size, name)) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "can't request region for resource %pR\n", res);
> +		return -EBUSY;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE)
> +		*dest = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, size);
> +	else
> +		*dest = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, size);
> +
> +	if (!*dest) {
> +		dev_err(dev, "ioremap failed for resource %pR\n", res);
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(devm_resource_to_mapped_ptr);
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT
>  /*
>   * Generic iomap devres
> -- 
> 1.7.6.3
> 



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