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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:26:41 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/21] thermal/drivers/qcom/temp-alarm: convert to use
 devm_request*_irq_probe()
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To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>, Amit Kucheria <amitk@kernel.org>,
        Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@gmail.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
        =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=c3=b6nig?= <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>,
        linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
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 <20230710095926.15614-8-frank.li@vivo.com>
From:   Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <20230710095926.15614-8-frank.li@vivo.com>
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On 10/07/2023 12:59, Yangtao Li wrote:
> There are more than 700 calls to devm_request_threaded_irq method and
> more than 1000 calls to devm_request_irq method. Most drivers only
> request one interrupt resource, and these error messages are basically
> the same. If error messages are printed everywhere, more than 2000 lines
> of code can be saved by removing the msg in the driver.
> 
> And tglx point out that:
> 
>    If we actually look at the call sites of
>    devm_request_threaded_irq() then the vast majority of them print more or
>    less lousy error messages. A quick grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq revealed
> 
>       519 messages total (there are probably more)
> 
>       352 unique messages
> 
>       323 unique messages after lower casing
> 
>           Those 323 are mostly just variants of the same patterns with
>           slight modifications in formatting and information provided.
> 
>       186 of these messages do not deliver any useful information,
>           e.g. "no irq", "
> 
>       The most useful one of all is: "could request wakeup irq: %d"
> 
>    So there is certainly an argument to be made that this particular
>    function should print a well formatted and informative error message.
> 
>    It's not a general allocator like kmalloc(). It's specialized and in the
>    vast majority of cases failing to request the interrupt causes the
>    device probe to fail. So having proper and consistent information why
>    the device cannot be used _is_ useful.
> 
> So convert to use devm_request*_irq_probe() API, which ensure that all
> error handling branches print error information.
> 
> In this way, when this function fails, the upper-layer functions can
> directly return an error code without missing debugging information.
> Otherwise, the error message will be printed redundantly or missing.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
> Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno  <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
> ---
>   drivers/thermal/qcom/qcom-spmi-temp-alarm.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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With best wishes
Dmitry