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pinctrl: nomadik: abx500: constify gpio_chip structure

PATCH In review Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jul 11, 2017 – Aug 1, 2017

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PATCH 1/1 pinctrl: nomadik: abx500: constify gpio_chip structure

This structure is only used to copy into another structure, so declare it as const.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i at p = { ... };

@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i at p;

@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e at i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
struct gpio_chip i = { ... };

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output of the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
text data bss dec hex filename
17545 5376 0 22921 5989 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

after:
bss dec hex filename
17273 5320 0 22593 5841 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

---
 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.c +1 -1
index f95001b..b32c0d6 100644
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static inline void abx500_gpio_dbg_show_one(struct seq_file *s,
 #define abx500_gpio_dbg_show	NULL
 #endif
 
-static struct gpio_chip abx500gpio_chip = {
+static const struct gpio_chip abx500gpio_chip = {
 	.label			= "abx500-gpio",
 	.owner			= THIS_MODULE,
 	.request		= gpiochip_generic_request,
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Quoted 40 lines · Gustavo A. R. Silva

This structure is only used to copy into another structure, so declare it as const.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:

@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i at p = { ... };

@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i at p;

@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e at i@p

@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
struct gpio_chip i = { ... };

In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output of the size command, before and after the code change:

before:
text data bss dec hex filename
17545 5376 0 22921 5989 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

Quoted 5 lines

after:
bss dec hex filename
17273 5320 0 22593 5841 drivers/pinctrl/nomadik/pinctrl-abx500.o

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij