[PATCH v5 040/111] pwm: Provide devm_pwmchip_alloc() function

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Alex,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 08:56:33AM -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 1/25/24 6:09 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > This function allocates a struct pwm_chip and driver data. Compared to
> > the status quo the split into pwm_chip and driver data is new, otherwise
> > it doesn't change anything relevant (yet).
> > 
> > The intention is that after all drivers are switched to use this
> > allocation function, its possible to add a struct device to struct
> > pwm_chip to properly track the latter's lifetime without touching all
> > drivers again. Proper lifetime tracking is a necessary precondition to
> > introduce character device support for PWMs (that implements atomic
> > setting and doesn't suffer from the sysfs overhead of the /sys/class/pwm
> > userspace support).
> > 
> > The new function pwmchip_priv() (obviously?) only works for chips
> > allocated with devm_pwmchip_alloc().
> 
> I think this looks good.  Two questions:
> - Should you explicitly align the private data?  Or do you believe
>   the default alignment (currently pointer size aligned) is adequate?

I'm not aware of a requirement for a higher order alignment (but I might
well miss something). I did my tests on arm, nothing exploded there.
Maybe the conservative approach of asserting the same alignment as
kmalloc would be a good idea. I'll think and research about that.

iio uses ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, net uses 32 (NETDEV_ALIGN).

> - Is there a non-devres version of the allocation function?

Patch #109 introduces a non-devres variant. As it's not used it's a
static function though. Can easily be changed is a use case pops up.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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