linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Remove most of_device

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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:55 -0500
From:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Remove most of_device_match() calls

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> Sending this as an RFC with one driver converted to see what people
> think. The goal is to avoid having to run the match twice and be
> similar to how platform_device_id works right now. If people agree
> I can go through and send out patches for all the drivers doing
> the duplicate search (~100 files).
>

See this commit:

commit b1608d69cb804e414d0887140ba08a9398e4e638
Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Date:   Wed May 18 11:19:24 2011 -0600

    drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device

    Commit b826291c, "drivercore/dt: add a match table pointer to struct
    device" added an of_match pointer to struct device to cache the
    of_match_table entry discovered at driver match time.  This was unsafe
    because matching is not an atomic operation with probing a driver.  If
    two or more drivers are attempted to be matched to a driver at the
    same time, then the cached matching entry pointer could get
    overwritten.

    This patch reverts the of_match cache pointer and reworks all users to
    call of_match_device() directly instead.

    Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
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