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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/7] iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Refactor driver and add chip_info structure
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On 4/29/23 15:59, Mehdi Djait wrote:
> Hi Matti,
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:12:11AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>> On 4/25/23 10:24, Mehdi Djait wrote:
>>> Hi Matti,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 09:50:11AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>>>> On 4/25/23 01:22, Mehdi Djait wrote:
>>>>> Add the chip_info structure to the driver's private data to hold all
>>>>> the device specific infos.
>>>>> Refactor the kx022a driver implementation to make it more generic and
>>>>> extensible.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mehdi Djait <mehdi.djait.k@gmail.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v3:
>>>>> - added the change of the buffer's allocation in the __kx022a_fifo_flush
>>>>> to this patch
>>>>> - added the chip_info to the struct kx022a_data
>>>>>
>>>>> v2:
>>>>> - mentioned the introduction of the i2c_device_id table in the commit
>>>>> - get i2c_/spi_get_device_id only when device get match fails
>>>>> - removed the generic KX_define
>>>>> - removed the kx022a_device_type enum
>>>>> - added comments for the chip_info struct elements
>>>>> - fixed errors pointed out by the kernel test robot
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-i2c.c | 15 +++-
>>>>> drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-spi.c | 15 +++-
>>>>> drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++---------
>>>>> drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a.h | 54 +++++++++++-
>>>>> 4 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-i2c.c b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-i2c.c
>>>>> index 8f23631a1fd3..ce299d0446f7 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-i2c.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kionix-kx022a-i2c.c
>>>>> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> static int __kx022a_fifo_flush(struct iio_dev *idev, unsigned int samples,
>>>>> @@ -600,13 +600,17 @@ static int __kx022a_fifo_flush(struct iio_dev *idev, unsigned int samples,
>>>>> {
>>>>> struct kx022a_data *data = iio_priv(idev);
>>>>> struct device *dev = regmap_get_device(data->regmap);
>>>>> - __le16 buffer[KX022A_FIFO_LENGTH * 3];
>>>>> + __le16 *buffer;
>>>>> uint64_t sample_period;
>>>>> int count, fifo_bytes;
>>>>> bool renable = false;
>>>>> int64_t tstamp;
>>>>> int ret, i;
>>>>> + buffer = kmalloc(data->chip_info->fifo_length * KX022A_FIFO_SAMPLES_SIZE_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>> + if (!buffer)
>>>>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>>>
>>>> Do you think we could get rid of allocating and freeing the buffer for each
>>>> flush? I feel it is a bit wasteful, and with high sampling frequencies this
>>>> function can be called quite often. Do you think there would be a way to
>>>> either use stack (always reserve big enough buffer no matter which chip we
>>>> have - or is the buffer too big to be safely taken from the stack?), or a
>>>> buffer stored in private data and allocated at probe or buffer enable?
>>>
>>> I tried using the same allocation as before but a device like the KX127
>>> has a fifo_length of 342 (compared to 86 for kx132, and 43 for kx022a).
>>> Allocating this much using the stack will result in a Warning.
>>>
>>
>> Right. Maybe you could then have the buffer in private-data and allocate it
>> in buffer pre-enable? Do you think that would work?
>
> Do you mean add a new function kx022a_buffer_preenable to iio_buffer_setup_ops ?

Sorry. I thought the kx022a already implemented the pre-enable callback
but it was the postenable. I was mistaken.

> Would adding the allocation to kx022a_fifo_enable and the free to
> kx022a_fifo_disable be a good option also ?
Yes. I think that should work!

Yours,
-- Matti


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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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