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

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Wed Jan 10 2024 - 03:57:05 EST


Hello,

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?!

Best regards
Uwe

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