Re: [PATCH v4 02/21] thermal/drivers/sun8i: convert to use devm_request*_irq_probe()

From: Jernej Škrabec
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 13:57:36 EST


Dne ponedeljek, 10. julij 2023 ob 11:59:06 CEST je Yangtao Li napisal(a):
> There are more than 700 calls to devm_request_threaded_irq method and
> more than 1000 calls to devm_request_irq method. Most drivers only
> request one interrupt resource, and these error messages are basically
> the same. If error messages are printed everywhere, more than 2000 lines
> of code can be saved by removing the msg in the driver.
>
> And tglx point out that:
>
> If we actually look at the call sites of
> devm_request_threaded_irq() then the vast majority of them print more or
> less lousy error messages. A quick grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq revealed
>
> 519 messages total (there are probably more)
>
> 352 unique messages
>
> 323 unique messages after lower casing
>
> Those 323 are mostly just variants of the same patterns with
> slight modifications in formatting and information provided.
>
> 186 of these messages do not deliver any useful information,
> e.g. "no irq", "
>
> The most useful one of all is: "could request wakeup irq: %d"
>
> So there is certainly an argument to be made that this particular
> function should print a well formatted and informative error message.
>
> It's not a general allocator like kmalloc(). It's specialized and in the
> vast majority of cases failing to request the interrupt causes the
> device probe to fail. So having proper and consistent information why
> the device cannot be used _is_ useful.
>
> So convert to use devm_request*_irq_probe() API, which ensure that all
> error handling branches print error information.
>
> In this way, when this function fails, the upper-layer functions can
> directly return an error code without missing debugging information.
> Otherwise, the error message will be printed redundantly or missing.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jernej

> drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> index 195f3c5d0b38..a952804ff993 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/sun8i_thermal.c
> @@ -512,9 +512,9 @@ static int sun8i_ths_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> * registered yet, we deffer the registration of the interrupt to
> * the end.
> */
> - ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL,
> - sun8i_irq_thread,
> - IRQF_ONESHOT, "ths", tmdev);
> + ret = devm_request_threaded_irq_probe(dev, irq, NULL,
> + sun8i_irq_thread,
> + IRQF_ONESHOT, "ths", tmdev, NULL);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
>