Re: [PATCH v2 02/12] fbdev: allow apertures == NULL in remove_conflicting_framebuffers()

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:00:05PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Interpret (otherwise-invalid) NULL apertures argument to mean all-memory
> range. This will allow to remove several duplicates of this code from
> drivers in following patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-li...@rere.qmqm.pl>
> [for v1]
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnier...@samsung.com>
> 
> ---
> v2: added kerneldoc to corresponding DRM helper
> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h      | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c 
> b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> index 30a18d4c9de4..0df148eb4699 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -1779,11 +1779,25 @@ int remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct 
> apertures_struct *a,
>                                   const char *name, bool primary)
>  {
>       int ret;
> +     bool do_free = false;
> +
> +     if (!a) {
> +             a = alloc_apertures(1);
> +             if (!a)
> +                     return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +             a->ranges[0].base = 0;
> +             a->ranges[0].size = ~0;
> +             do_free = true;
> +     }
>  
>       mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
>       ret = do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(a, name, primary);
>       mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);
>  
> +     if (do_free)
> +             kfree(a);
> +
>       return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_conflicting_framebuffers);
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> index b069433e7fc1..1c1e53abb25d 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> @@ -566,6 +566,16 @@ static inline void 
> drm_fb_helper_output_poll_changed(struct drm_device *dev)
>  
>  #endif
>  
> +/**
> + * drm_fb_helper_remove_conflicting_framebuffers - remove firmware 
> framebuffers
> + * @a: memory range, users of which are to be removed
> + * @name: requesting driver name
> + * @primary: also kick vga16fb if present
> + *
> + * This function removes framebuffer devices (eg. initialized by firmware)
> + * which use memory range described by @a. If @a is NULL all such devices are
> + * removed.
> + */

This looks like misplaced copypasta. You only need this once I think.
-Daniel

>  static inline int
>  drm_fb_helper_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
>                                             const char *name, bool primary)
> -- 
> 2.18.0
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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