Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:19:27 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] sound: Use -EPROBE_DEFER instead of i915 module loading. | From | Péter Ujfalusi <> |
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Hi Maarten,
On 19/07/2023 19:41, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Explicitly loading i915 becomes a problem when upstreaming the new intel driver > for Tiger Lake and higher graphics (xe). By loading i915, it doesn't wait for > driver load of xe, and will fail completely before it loads. > > -EPROBE_DEFER has to be returned before any device is created in probe(), > otherwise the removal of the device will cause EPROBE_DEFER to try again > in an infinite loop. > > The conversion is done in gradual steps. First I add an argument to > snd_hdac_i915_init to allow for -EPROBE_DEFER so I can convert each driver > separately. Then I convert each driver to move snd_hdac_i915_init out of the > workqueue. Finally I drop the ability to choose modprobe behavior after the > last user is converted. > > I suspect the avs and skylake drivers used snd_hdac_i915_init purely for the > modprobe, but I don't have the hardware to test if it can be safely removed. > It can still be done easily in a followup patch to simplify probing.
Apart from the few comments I had, this looks great and works OK on the machines I have tested (iow, no regression so far).
Thank you for the work! -- Péter
> > --- > New since first version: > > - snd_hda_core.gpu_bind is added as a mechanism to force gpu binding, > for testing. snd_hda_core.gpu_bind=0 forces waiting for GPU bind to > off, snd_hda_core.gpu_bind=1 forces waiting for gpu bind. Default > setting depends on whether kernel booted with nomodeset. > - Incorporated all feedback review. > > Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> > Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> > Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> > Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com> > Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: sound-open-firmware@alsa-project.org > > Maarten Lankhorst (9): > ALSA: hda/intel: Fix error handling in azx_probe() > ALSA: hda/i915: Allow override of gpu binding. > ALSA: hda/i915: Add an allow_modprobe argument to snd_hdac_i915_init > ALSA: hda/i915: Allow xe as match for i915_component_master_match > ASoC: Intel: avs: Move snd_hdac_i915_init to before probe_work. > ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Move snd_hdac_i915_init to before probe_work. > ALSA: hda/intel: Move snd_hdac_i915_init to before probe_work. > ASoC: SOF: Intel: Remove deferred probe for SOF > ALSA: hda/i915: Remove extra argument from snd_hdac_i915_init > > sound/hda/hdac_i915.c | 25 ++++++++------- > sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- > sound/soc/intel/avs/core.c | 13 +++++--- > sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl.c | 31 ++++++------------ > sound/soc/sof/Kconfig | 19 ----------- > sound/soc/sof/core.c | 38 ++-------------------- > sound/soc/sof/intel/Kconfig | 1 - > sound/soc/sof/intel/hda.c | 32 +++++++++++-------- > sound/soc/sof/sof-pci-dev.c | 3 +- > sound/soc/sof/sof-priv.h | 5 --- > 10 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-) >
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