Re: [PATCH v3 46/57] perf: Simplify pmu_dev_alloc()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:

> Then in the last part of the file, I abuse the DEFINE_FREE() to handle a
> special case of removing a proc file if things go bad (and add a
> DEFINE_FREE() for class_destroy(), which should go into
> include/device/class.h.
> 
> I've only test-built it, but is this the proper use of DEFINE_FREE()?
> There wasn't much documentation :)

Yes, this looks right.

> To be fair the end-result of misc_init() is much nicer and cleaner and
> "obviously correct", which is good, even with the crazy proc file mess
> in it.  So I like the idea overall, need to figure out when to use
> DEFINE_CLASS() vs. DEFINE_FREE(), that isn't obvious to me.

CLASS is meant for things that have an obvious contructor as well as a
destructor, that always go together. Like for example the lock things,
they always pair a lock and unlock. But also things like:
fdget()+fdput(), these can also always be paired, and if you want the
file to escape you simply take yet another reference to prevent the
fdput() from being the final.

> Also, you can't put a DEFINE_FREE() within a function declaration, which
> I guess makes sense, but the build warning is very odd when you attempt
> it, mentioning an "invalid storage class".  Is that supposed to be able
> to work?

No, DEFINE_FREE() and DEFINE_CLASS() end up defining a bunch of inline
functions, which can't be done inside another function.

If only C would have lambda functions ... alas.

> @@ -280,29 +268,24 @@ static char *misc_devnode(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> +DEFINE_FREE(class_destroy, struct class *, if (_T) class_destroy(_T));

Documentation for class_create() says it will return ERR_PTR(), so then
this should be something like:

DEFINE_FRERE(class_destroy, struct class *, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) class_destroy(_T))

> +DEFINE_FREE(remove_proc, struct proc_dir_entry *, if (_T) remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL));
>  static int __init misc_init(void)
>  {
> +	struct proc_dir_entry *ret __free(remove_proc) = proc_create_seq("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_seq_ops);
> +	struct class *c __free(class_destroy) = class_create("misc");
>  
> +	if (IS_ERR(c))
> +		return PTR_ERR(c);
>  
>  	if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR, "misc", &misc_fops))
> +		return -EIO;
>  
> +	c->devnode = misc_devnode;
> +
> +	misc_class = no_free_ptr(c);
> +	no_free_ptr(ret);
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }

And yes, this does look nicer.