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uacce: make uacce_class constant

Message ID 2023102458-designate-vicinity-4c86@gregkh
State New
Headers
Series uacce: make uacce_class constant |

Commit Message

Greg KH Oct. 24, 2023, 11:49 a.m. UTC 
  Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, we should make all 'class' structures declared at build time
placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at runtime.

Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

Zhangfei Gao Oct. 26, 2023, 2:21 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 19:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
> memory, we should make all 'class' structures declared at build time
> placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
> allocated at runtime.
>
> Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
> Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Thanks, Greg

Tested-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Greg KH Oct. 27, 2023, 6:52 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:21:52AM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 19:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
> > memory, we should make all 'class' structures declared at build time
> > placing them into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
> > allocated at runtime.
> >
> > Cc: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Cc: linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Thanks, Greg
> 
> Tested-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>

Wonderful, thanks for testing!
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c b/drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c
index 930c252753a0..bdc2e6fda782 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@ 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/uacce.h>
 
-static struct class *uacce_class;
 static dev_t uacce_devt;
 static DEFINE_XARRAY_ALLOC(uacce_xa);
 
+static const struct class uacce_class = {
+	.name = UACCE_NAME,
+};
+
 /*
  * If the parent driver or the device disappears, the queue state is invalid and
  * ops are not usable anymore.
@@ -530,7 +533,7 @@  struct uacce_device *uacce_alloc(struct device *parent,
 	mutex_init(&uacce->mutex);
 	device_initialize(&uacce->dev);
 	uacce->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(uacce_devt), uacce->dev_id);
-	uacce->dev.class = uacce_class;
+	uacce->dev.class = &uacce_class;
 	uacce->dev.groups = uacce_dev_groups;
 	uacce->dev.parent = uacce->parent;
 	uacce->dev.release = uacce_release;
@@ -623,13 +626,13 @@  static int __init uacce_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	uacce_class = class_create(UACCE_NAME);
-	if (IS_ERR(uacce_class))
-		return PTR_ERR(uacce_class);
+	ret = class_register(&uacce_class);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&uacce_devt, 0, MINORMASK, UACCE_NAME);
 	if (ret)
-		class_destroy(uacce_class);
+		class_unregister(&uacce_class);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -637,7 +640,7 @@  static int __init uacce_init(void)
 static __exit void uacce_exit(void)
 {
 	unregister_chrdev_region(uacce_devt, MINORMASK);
-	class_destroy(uacce_class);
+	class_unregister(&uacce_class);
 }
 
 subsys_initcall(uacce_init);