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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vaittinen, Matti" <Matti.Vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>,
	"mturquette@baylibre.com" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
	"sboyd@kernel.org" <sboyd@kernel.org>,
	"robh+dt@kernel.org" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"mark.rutland@arm.com" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"lee.jones@linaro.org" <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	"lgirdwood@gmail.com" <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	"linux-clk@vger.kernel.org" <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Mutanen, Mikko" <Mikko.Mutanen@fi.rohmeurope.com>,
	"Haikola, Heikki" <Heikki.Haikola@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] regulator: bd71837: BD71837 PMIC regulator driver
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 11:14:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180525101423.GH4828@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180525072253.GC16888@localhost.localdomain>

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On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:22:53AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:51:27PM +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:

> > > devm_regulator_regster()

> > Makes sense. Thanks

> I was going to do 

> -       pmic = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bd71837_pmic), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       pmic = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct bd71837_pmic),
> +                           GFP_KERNEL);

> and

> -               rdev = regulator_register(desc, &config);
> +               rdev = devm_regulator_register(&pdev->dev, desc, &config);
> 
> but is there now a race regarding freeing the pmic structure and
> unregistering the regulator?

Why?  devm_ stuff gets unwound in the opposite order to the order in
which it was allocated.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-25 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24  6:00 [PATCH 8/9] regulator: bd71837: BD71837 PMIC regulator driver Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-24 14:14 ` Mark Brown
2018-05-24 17:51   ` Vaittinen, Matti
2018-05-24 17:59     ` Mark Brown
2018-05-25  5:08       ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-25  7:22     ` Matti Vaittinen
2018-05-25 10:14       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2018-05-25 11:32         ` Matti Vaittinen

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