From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756197Ab1KPQfl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:35:41 -0500 Received: from smtp-out-055.synserver.de ([212.40.185.55]:1120 "HELO smtp-out-054.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753217Ab1KPQfk (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:35:40 -0500 X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: lars@metafoo.de X-SynServer-PPID: 27214 Message-ID: <4EC3E684.90109@metafoo.de> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:36:20 +0100 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20111010 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Dimitris Papastamos , Jonathan Cameron , Michael Hennerich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, drivers@analog.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] regmap: Make reg_config reg_defaults const References: <1321457302-8724-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <1321457302-8724-2-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <20111116161316.GI29986@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4EC3E385.4060006@metafoo.de> <20111116162442.GL29986@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> In-Reply-To: <20111116162442.GL29986@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/16/2011 05:24 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 05:23:33PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >> On 11/16/2011 05:13 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> You should've got reams of sparse warnings from that - the indexed cache >>> is writing to the defaults table (which is very naughty and i keep >>> thinking about deleting it as a result). > >> This patch makes reg_defaults const in the reg_config struct not in the >> regmap struct. > >> Since we duplicate the reg_config reg_defaults into the regmap reg_defaults >> the index cache works on a runtime allocated array. (Though I wouldn't >> object to see it gone. For the average uscase it uses more memory and is >> slower than the rbnode cache). > > Did you actually check the sparse output? No, because the only place we ever look at config->reg_defaults is in regache_init. And now I just run sparse and as expected regmap doesn't trigger any warnings or errors.