RE: [PATCH 08/12] ACPI: APEI: GHES: use devm_blocking_notifier_chain_register()

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:55:09 +0000
> Eliav Farber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Replace the blocking_notifier_chain_register() +
> > devm_add_action_or_reset() pattern with a single call to
> > devm_blocking_notifier_chain_register(), removing the
> > ghes_vendor_record_notifier_destroy() callback.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 15 +++------------
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > index 3236a3ce79d6..3aa29dcd70da 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> > @@ -689,21 +689,12 @@ void ghes_unregister_vendor_record_noti fier(struct notifier_block *nb)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier);
> >
> > -static void ghes_vendor_record_notifier_destroy(void *nb)
> > -{
> > -     ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier(nb);
> > -}
> > -
> >  int devm_ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier(struct device *dev,
> >                                             struct notifier_block *nb)
> >  {
> > -     int ret;
> > -
> > -     ret = ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier(nb);
> > -     if (ret)
> > -             return ret;
> > -
> > -     return devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, ghes_vendor_record_notifier_destroy, nb);
> > +     return devm_blocking_notifier_chain_register(dev,
> > +                                                  &vendor_record_notify_list,
> > +                                                  nb);
>
> Whilst correct, I'm less keen on this one because it looses the obvious connection
> to the non devm form.  I suppose with the code being so near
> to the non devm we can go with this.
>
> For that matter why do we have the non devm variants?  There are no users in tree.
> Can we just rip that and the unregister given this is removing the only users?

You're right - there are no in-tree users of the non-devm
ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier() and
ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier(). The only callers
(pcie-hisi-error.c and ghes-nvidia.c) both use the devm variant.

I'll update this patch in v2 to also remove the non-devm functions
and their EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s, along with the declarations and
kerneldoc in include/acpi/ghes.h.