Re: [PATCH 4/5] drivers/xen: make sys-hypervisor.c explicitly non-modular

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 06:55:21 EST


On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> config XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR
> bool "Create xen entries under /sys/hypervisor"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular
> case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit. However
> one could argue that fs_initcall() might make more sense here.
>
> This change means that the one line function xen_properties_destroy()
> has only one user left, and since that is inside an #ifdef, we just
> manually inline it there vs. adding more ifdeffery around the function
> to avoid compile warnings about "defined but not used".

Actually xen_sysfs_uuid_destroy, xen_compilation_destroy,
xen_sysfs_version_destroy, and xen_sysfs_type_destroy are also
one-liners with only one user left.


> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c | 31 ++++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c b/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
> index b5a7342e0ba5..ea6e98d60af0 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/kobject.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
>
> @@ -366,11 +366,6 @@ static int __init xen_properties_init(void)
> return sysfs_create_group(hypervisor_kobj, &xen_properties_group);
> }
>
> -static void xen_properties_destroy(void)
> -{
> - sysfs_remove_group(hypervisor_kobj, &xen_properties_group);
> -}
> -
> #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_VPMU
> struct pmu_mode {
> const char *name;
> @@ -484,11 +479,6 @@ static int __init xen_pmu_init(void)
> {
> return sysfs_create_group(hypervisor_kobj, &xen_pmu_group);
> }
> -
> -static void xen_pmu_destroy(void)
> -{
> - sysfs_remove_group(hypervisor_kobj, &xen_pmu_group);
> -}
> #endif
>
> static int __init hyper_sysfs_init(void)
> @@ -517,7 +507,8 @@ static int __init hyper_sysfs_init(void)
> if (xen_initial_domain()) {
> ret = xen_pmu_init();
> if (ret) {
> - xen_properties_destroy();
> + sysfs_remove_group(hypervisor_kobj,
> + &xen_properties_group);
> goto prop_out;
> }
> }
> @@ -535,21 +526,7 @@ version_out:
> out:
> return ret;
> }
> -
> -static void __exit hyper_sysfs_exit(void)
> -{
> -#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_HAVE_VPMU
> - xen_pmu_destroy();
> -#endif
> - xen_properties_destroy();
> - xen_compilation_destroy();
> - xen_sysfs_uuid_destroy();
> - xen_sysfs_version_destroy();
> - xen_sysfs_type_destroy();
> -
> -}
> -module_init(hyper_sysfs_init);
> -module_exit(hyper_sysfs_exit);
> +device_initcall(hyper_sysfs_init);
>
> static ssize_t hyp_sysfs_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> struct attribute *attr,
> --
> 2.6.1
>