[PATCH 00/18] perf: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Jan 12 10:53:00 PST 2024


Hey Will,

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 01:50:09PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 09:56:26AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:59:00PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > this series converts all drivers below drivers/perf to use
> > > .remove_new(). See commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform: Provide a remove
> > > callback that returns no value") for an extended explanation and the
> > > eventual goal. The TL;DR; is to make it harder for driver authors to
> > > leak resources without noticing.
> > > 
> > > I based the patches on today's next, I had to revert commits 
> > > 3115ee021bfb ("arm64: perf: Include threshold control fields in
> > > PMEVTYPER mask") and 816c26754447 ("arm64: perf: Add support for event
> > > counting threshold") to compile test on ARCH=arm (this is a problem in
> > > next, not in my patch series).
> > > 
> > > This is merge window material. All patches are pairwise independent of
> > > each other so they can be applied individually. Still it would be great
> > > to let them go in all together.
> > 
> > I wonder if this series is still on someone's radar. It didn't appear in
> > next up to now, so I guess it's too late for 6.8-rc1?!
> 
> This came in during the holiday period so, by the time I saw it, it was
> too late to land for this merge window. I can pick it up for 6.9 in a few
> weeks, though. I usually start queueing stuff at -rc3.

If it's not lost I'm happy. There are still quite a few more such
changes necessary for other subsystems, so no time pressure from my
side; 6.9 is great.

Cheers
Uwe

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