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From: lambert.quentin@gmail.com (Quentin Lambert)
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:04:09 +0100
Subject: [Cocci] [PATCH v13 3/6] clk: Make clk API return per-user struct
 clk instances
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Hello,
Julia asked me to have a look and see if I can help.

On 02/02/2015 23:50, Mike Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Boyd (2015-02-02 14:35:59)
>> On 02/02/15 13:31, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>>
>>>> Julia,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way we can write a coccinelle script to check for this? The
>>>> goal being to find all drivers that are comparing struct clk pointers or
>>>> attempting to dereference them. There are probably other frameworks that
>>>> could use the same type of check (regulator, gpiod, reset, pwm, etc.).
>>>> Probably anything that has a get/put API.
>>> Comparing or dereferencing pointers of a particular type should be
>>> straightforward to check for.  Is there an example of how to use the
>>> parent_index value to fix the problem?
>>>
>> I'm not sure how to fix this case with parent_index values generically.
>> I imagine it would be highly specific to the surrounding code to the
>> point where we couldn't fix it automatically. For example, if it's a clk
>> consumer (not provider like in this case) using an index wouldn't be the
>> right fix. We would need some sort of clk API that we don't currently
>> have and I would wonder why clock consumers even care to compare such
>> pointers in the first place.
> Ack. Is there precedent for a "Don't do that" kind of response?
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
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I have found these three cases using Coccinnelle in the mach-omap2
directory.



./arch/arm/mach-omap2/clkt_clksel.c
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ static const struct clksel *_get_clksel_
                 return NULL;

         for (clks = clk->clksel; clks->parent; clks++)
                 if (clks->parent == src_clk)
                         break; /* Found the requested parent */

         if (!clks->parent) {
./arch/arm/mach-omap2/dpll3xxx.c
@@ -551,7 +549,6 @@ int omap3_noncore_dpll_set_rate(struct c
         if (!dd)
                 return -EINVAL;

         if (__clk_get_parent(hw->clk) != dd->clk_ref)
                 return -EINVAL;

         if (dd->last_rounded_rate == 0)
./arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer.c
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int __init omap_dm_timer_init_one
         if (IS_ERR(src))
                 return PTR_ERR(src);

         if (clk_get_parent(timer->fclk) != src) {
                 r = clk_set_parent(timer->fclk, src);
                 if (r < 0) {
                         pr_warn("%s: %s cannot set source\n", __func__,


Are they instances of your issue?
Do you have any suggestion on how to fix them?
If you want me to I can enlarge the search to other directories.


Quentin