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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 0/7] Solve postboot supplier cleanup and optimize probe ordering
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On 7/25/19 6:42 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 05:10:53PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>> Add device-links to track functional dependencies between devices
>> after they are created (but before they are probed) by looking at
>> their common DT bindings like clocks, interconnects, etc.
>>
>> Having functional dependencies automatically added before the devices
>> are probed, provides the following benefits:
>>
>> - Optimizes device probe order and avoids the useless work of
>> attempting probes of devices that will not probe successfully
>> (because their suppliers aren't present or haven't probed yet).
>>
>> For example, in a commonly available mobile SoC, registering just
>> one consumer device's driver at an initcall level earlier than the
>> supplier device's driver causes 11 failed probe attempts before the
>> consumer device probes successfully. This was with a kernel with all
>> the drivers statically compiled in. This problem gets a lot worse if
>> all the drivers are loaded as modules without direct symbol
>> dependencies.
>>
>> - Supplier devices like clock providers, interconnect providers, etc
>> need to keep the resources they provide active and at a particular
>> state(s) during boot up even if their current set of consumers don't
>> request the resource to be active. This is because the rest of the
>> consumers might not have probed yet and turning off the resource
>> before all the consumers have probed could lead to a hang or
>> undesired user experience.
>>
>> Some frameworks (Eg: regulator) handle this today by turning off
>> "unused" resources at late_initcall_sync and hoping all the devices
>> have probed by then. This is not a valid assumption for systems with
>> loadable modules. Other frameworks (Eg: clock) just don't handle
>> this due to the lack of a clear signal for when they can turn off
>> resources. This leads to downstream hacks to handle cases like this
>> that can easily be solved in the upstream kernel.
>>
>> By linking devices before they are probed, we give suppliers a clear
>> count of the number of dependent consumers. Once all of the
>> consumers are active, the suppliers can turn off the unused
>> resources without making assumptions about the number of consumers.
>>
>> By default we just add device-links to track "driver presence" (probe
>> succeeded) of the supplier device. If any other functionality provided
>> by device-links are needed, it is left to the consumer/supplier
>> devices to change the link when they probe.
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> - Drop patch to speed up of_find_device_by_node()
>> - Drop depends-on property and use existing bindings
>>
>> v2 -> v3:
>> - Refactor the code to have driver core initiate the linking of devs
>> - Have driver core link consumers to supplier before it's probed
>> - Add support for drivers to edit the device links before probing
>>
>> v3 -> v4:
>> - Tested edit_links() on system with cyclic dependency. Works.
>> - Added some checks to make sure device link isn't attempted from
>> parent device node to child device node.
>> - Added way to pause/resume sync_state callbacks across
>> of_platform_populate().
>> - Recursively parse DT node to create device links from parent to
>> suppliers of parent and all child nodes.
>>
>> v4 -> v5:
>> - Fixed copy-pasta bugs with linked list handling
>> - Walk up the phandle reference till I find an actual device (needed
>> for regulators to work)
>> - Added support for linking devices from regulator DT bindings
>> - Tested the whole series again to make sure cyclic dependencies are
>> broken with edit_links() and regulator links are created properly.
>>
>> v5 -> v6:
>> - Split, squashed and reordered some of the patches.
>> - Refactored the device linking code to follow the same code pattern for
>> any property.
>>
>> v6 -> v7:
>> - No functional changes.
>> - Renamed i to index
>> - Added comment to clarify not having to check property name for every
>> index
>> - Added "matched" variable to clarify code. No functional change.
>> - Added comments to include/linux/device.h for add_links()
>>
>> I've also not updated this patch series to handle the new patch [1] from
>> Rafael. Will do that once this patch series is close to being Acked.
>>
>> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3121545.4lOhFoIcdQ@kreacher/
>
>
> This looks sane to me. Anyone have any objections for me queueing this
> up for my tree to get into linux-next now?

I would like for the series to get into linux-next sooner than later,
and spend some time there.

I am _slightly_ more optimistic than Rob that sitting in linux-next for
an extended period might reveal any latent issues, so I would like for
the series to be in linux-next for an extended period of time. (Yes,
my understanding is that Linus does not like patches to be in linux-next
if they are not targeted for the next merge window, but I prefer that
this patch series spend as much time in linux-next as possible).

I have been waiting for the changes to settle down before bringing up
the issue of devicetree overlays. Now that the code seems to be
settling down, I need to look at how these changes impact overlays.
So I do not think the patches will be ready for a Linus pull request
until overlays are considered.

-Frank

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

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