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    drm/mipi-dsi: Reduce driver bloat of mipi_dsi_*_write_seq() · 3b724909
    Douglas Anderson authored
    Through a cooperative effort between Hsin-Yi Wang and Dmitry
    Baryshkov, we have realized the dev_err() in the
    mipi_dsi_*_write_seq() macros was causing quite a bit of bloat to the
    kernel. Let's hoist this call into drm_mipi_dsi.c by adding a "chatty"
    version of the functions that includes the print. While doing this,
    add a bit more comments to these macros making it clear that they
    print errors and also that they return out of _the caller's_ function.
    
    Without any changes to clients this gives a nice savings. Specifically
    the macro was inlined and thus the error report call was inlined into
    every call to mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() and
    mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq(). By using a call to a "chatty" function,
    the usage is reduced to one call in the chatty function and a function
    call at the invoking site.
    
    Building with my build system shows one example:
    
    $ scripts/bloat-o-meter \
      .../before/panel-novatek-nt36672e.ko \
      .../after/panel-novatek-nt36672e.ko
    add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-4404 (-4404)
    Function                                     old     new   delta
    nt36672e_1080x2408_60hz_init               10640    6236   -4404
    Total: Before=15055, After=10651, chg -29.25%
    
    Note that given the change in location of the print it's harder to
    include the "cmd" in the printout for mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq() since,
    theoretically, someone could call the new chatty function with a
    zero-size array and it would be illegal to dereference data[0].
    There's a printk format to print the whole buffer and this is probably
    more useful for debugging anyway. Given that we're doing this for
    mipi_dsi_dcs_write_seq(), let's also print the buffer for
    mipi_dsi_generic_write_seq() in the error case.
    
    It should be noted that the current consensus of DRM folks is that the
    mipi_dsi_*_write_seq() should be deprecated due to the non-intuitive
    return behavior. A future patch will formally mark them as deprecated
    and provide an alternative.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNeil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240514102056.v5.4.Id15fae80582bc74a0d4f1338987fa375738f45b9@changeidSigned-off-by: default avatarNeil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240514102056.v5.4.Id15fae80582bc74a0d4f1338987fa375738f45b9@changeid
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