Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] pwm: meson: Add support for Amlogic S4 PWM

From: Junyi Zhao <junyi.zhao@amlogic.com>
To: "Jerome Brunet" <jbrunet@baylibre.com>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Cc: Kelvin Zhang via B4 Relay
	<devnull+kelvin.zhang.amlogic.com@kernel.org>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	kelvin.zhang@amlogic.com, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] pwm: meson: Add support for Amlogic S4 PWM
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:44:13 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <948ba34a-1e05-45c4-8ba7-66c72bdb6fa5@amlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1jbk44htqr.fsf@starbuckisacylon.baylibre.com>

On 2024/6/14 15:24, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> [ EXTERNAL EMAIL ]
> 
> On Thu 13 Jun 2024 at 22:46, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 05:54:31PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>>>> +  for (i = 0; i < MESON_NUM_PWMS; i++) {
>>>> +          meson->channels[i].clk = of_clk_get(np, i);
>>>> +          if (IS_ERR(meson->channels[i].clk))
>>>> +                  return dev_err_probe(dev,
>>>> +                                       PTR_ERR(meson->channels[i].clk),
>>>> +                                       "Failed to get clk\n");
>>>
>>> here it is ok but ..
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +          ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, meson_pwm_s4_put_clk,
>>>> +                                         meson->channels[i].clk);
>>>> +          if (ret)
>>>> +                  return dev_err_probe(dev, ret,
>>>> +                                       "Failed to add clk_put action\n");
>>>
>>> ... here, devm_add_action_or_reset cannot defer, so dev_err_probe is not useful.
>>> dev_err() if you must print something. Just "return ret;" would be fine
>>> by me
>>
>> I don't agree. dev_err_probe() has several purposes. Only one of them is
>> handling -EPROBE_DEFER. See also commit
>> 532888a59505da2a3fbb4abac6adad381cedb374.
> 
> I was stuck on the -EPROBE_DEFER usage. Thanks for the heads up
> 
>>
>> So yes, please use dev_err_probe() also to handle
>> devm_add_action_or_reset().
> 
> My point here is also that devm_add_action_or_reset() can only fail on
> memory allocation, like (devm_)kzalloc. Looking around the kernel, we
> tend to not add messages for that and just return the error code,
> presumably because those same 'out of memory' messages would proliferate
> everywhere.
> 
>>
>> Best regards
>> Uwe
> 
> --
> Jerome

Hi Uwe, I didnt get the clear point.
So, if we need "return ret" directly? or keep "dev_err_probe()" to print?

--
Best regards
Junyi

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