[PATCH 2/3] of: dynamic: add of_node_alloc() and of_node_free()

Clément Léger clement.leger at bootlin.com
Thu May 5 01:40:32 AEST 2022


Add functions which allows to create and free nodes.

Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <clement.leger at bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/of/dynamic.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/linux/of.h   |  9 +++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/dynamic.c b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
index e8700e509d2e..ec28e5ba2969 100644
--- a/drivers/of/dynamic.c
+++ b/drivers/of/dynamic.c
@@ -455,6 +455,54 @@ struct property *__of_prop_dup(const struct property *prop, gfp_t allocflags)
 				 prop->length, allocflags);
 }
 
+/**
+ * of_node_free - Free a node allocated dynamically.
+ * @node:	Node to be freed
+ */
+void of_node_free(const struct device_node *node)
+{
+	kfree(node->full_name);
+	kfree(node->data);
+	kfree(node);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_node_free);
+
+/**
+ * of_node_alloc - Allocate a node dynamically.
+ * @name:	Node name
+ * @allocflags:	Allocation flags (typically pass GFP_KERNEL)
+ *
+ * Create a node by dynamically allocating the memory of both the
+ * node structure and the node name & contents. The node's
+ * flags have the OF_DYNAMIC & OF_DETACHED bit set so that we can
+ * differentiate between dynamically allocated nodes and not.
+ *
+ * Return: The newly allocated node or NULL on out of memory error.
+ */
+struct device_node *of_node_alloc(const char *name, gfp_t allocflags)
+{
+	struct device_node *node;
+
+	node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), allocflags);
+	if (!node)
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (name) {
+		node->full_name = kstrdup(name, allocflags);
+		if (!node->full_name) {
+			kfree(node);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
+	of_node_set_flag(node, OF_DYNAMIC);
+	of_node_set_flag(node, OF_DETACHED);
+	of_node_init(node);
+
+	return node;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_node_alloc);
+
 /**
  * __of_node_dup() - Duplicate or create an empty device node dynamically.
  * @np:		if not NULL, contains properties to be duplicated in new node
@@ -471,18 +519,9 @@ struct device_node *__of_node_dup(const struct device_node *np,
 {
 	struct device_node *node;
 
-	node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL);
+	node = of_node_alloc(NULL, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!node)
 		return NULL;
-	node->full_name = kstrdup(full_name, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!node->full_name) {
-		kfree(node);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	of_node_set_flag(node, OF_DYNAMIC);
-	of_node_set_flag(node, OF_DETACHED);
-	of_node_init(node);
 
 	/* Iterate over and duplicate all properties */
 	if (np) {
diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
index 6b345eb71c19..749ac07f4960 100644
--- a/include/linux/of.h
+++ b/include/linux/of.h
@@ -1463,6 +1463,8 @@ enum of_reconfig_change {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC
+extern struct device_node *of_node_alloc(const char *name, gfp_t allocflags);
+extern void of_node_free(const struct device_node *node);
 extern struct property *of_property_alloc(const char *name, const void *value,
 					  int value_len, int len,
 					  gfp_t allocflags);
@@ -1512,6 +1514,13 @@ static inline int of_changeset_update_property(struct of_changeset *ocs,
 	return of_changeset_action(ocs, OF_RECONFIG_UPDATE_PROPERTY, np, prop);
 }
 #else /* CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC */
+static inline struct device_node *of_node_alloc(const char *name,
+						gfp_t allocflags)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void of_node_free(const struct device_node *node) {}
 
 static inline struct property *of_property_alloc(const char *name,
 						 const void *value,
-- 
2.34.1



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