On mar. 29 sept. 2026 at 12:24, Rosen Penev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Use a flexible array member to avoid allocating separately.
>
> Use __counted_by for extra runtime analysis.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c | 12 +++---------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> index 067a8555c4e7..15b976162b59 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct tegra_bpmp_clk {
>       unsigned int id;
>  
>       unsigned int num_parents;
> -     unsigned int *parents;
> +     unsigned int parents[] __counted_by(num_parents);
>  };
>  
>  static inline struct tegra_bpmp_clk *to_tegra_bpmp_clk(struct clk_hw *hw)
> @@ -518,20 +518,14 @@ tegra_bpmp_clk_register(struct tegra_bpmp *bpmp,
>       unsigned int i;
>       int err;
>  
> -     clk = devm_kzalloc(bpmp->dev, sizeof(*clk), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     clk = devm_kzalloc(bpmp->dev, struct_size(clk, parents, 
> info->num_parents), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!clk)
>               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> +     clk->num_parents = info->num_parents;
>       clk->id = info->id;
>       clk->bpmp = bpmp;
>  
> -     clk->parents = devm_kcalloc(bpmp->dev, info->num_parents,
> -                                 sizeof(*clk->parents), GFP_KERNEL);
> -     if (!clk->parents)
> -             return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -
> -     clk->num_parents = info->num_parents;
> -

What is the benefit of doing this ? It looks like you are just trading
one alloc for another here ?

>       /* hardware clock initialization */
>       memset(&init, 0, sizeof(init));
>       init.name = info->name;
> -- 
> 2.55.0
>

-- 
Jerome

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