Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] gpiolib: cdev: relocate debounce_period_us from struct gpio_desc

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Dec 14 2023 - 10:03:12 EST


On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 05:58:11PM +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> Store the debounce period for a requested line locally, rather than in
> the debounce_period_us field in the gpiolib struct gpio_desc.
>
> Add a global tree of lines containing supplemental line information
> to make the debounce period available to be reported by the
> GPIO_V2_GET_LINEINFO_IOCTL and the line change notifier.

...

> +/*
> + * Used to populate gpio_v2_line_info with cdev specific fields not contained
> + * in the struct gpio_desc.
> + * A line is determined to contain supplemental information by
> + * line_is_supplemental().
> + */
> +static struct {
> + /* a rbtree of the struct lines containing the supplemental info */
> + struct rb_root tree;
> + /* covers tree */
> + spinlock_t lock;
> +} supinfo;

...

> +static void supinfo_init(void)
> +{
> + supinfo.tree = RB_ROOT;
> + spin_lock_init(&supinfo.lock);
> +}

Can it be done statically?

supinfo = {
.tree = RB_ROOT,
.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(supinfo.lock),
};

...

> +static int __init gpiolib_cdev_init(void)
> +{
> + supinfo_init();
> + return 0;
> +}

A comment why it's postcore initcall?

/* postcore initcall is chosen because ... */

> +postcore_initcall(gpiolib_cdev_init);

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko