linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] device core: Add flag to autoremove device link on supplier unbind

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:46:20 +0530
From:   Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
To:     rjw@...ysocki.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] device core: Add flag to autoremove device link on
 supplier unbind

Adding Ulf and Marek.

On 6/27/2018 6:20 PM, Vivek Gautam wrote:
> Add a flag to autoremove the device links on supplier driver
> unbind. This obviates the need to explicitly delete the link
> in the remove path.
> We remove these links only when the supplier's link to its
> consumers has gone to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@...eaurora.org>
> Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
> ---

Hi Rafael, et al.

Gentle ping.
Do you have comments on this series. I would really like to conclude these
device link additions sooner, and get things moving on the long awaited
arm-smmu clock/runtime support series.

Thanks again for reviewing these patches.

Best regards
Vivek
>   Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst |  4 ++++
>   drivers/base/core.c                      | 10 ++++++++++
>   include/linux/device.h                   |  2 ++
>   3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst
> index a005b904a264..d6763272e747 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst
> @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ automatically purged when the consumer fails to probe or later unbinds.
>   This obviates the need to explicitly delete the link in the ``->remove``
>   callback or in the error path of the ``->probe`` callback.
>   
> +Similarly, when the device link is added from supplier's ``->probe`` callback,
> +``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER`` causes the device link to be automatically
> +purged when the supplier fails to probe or later unbinds.
> +
>   Limitations
>   ===========
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 14c1e3151e08..e721218bf352 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -518,6 +518,16 @@ void device_links_driver_cleanup(struct device *dev)
>   
>   		WARN_ON(link->flags & DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER);
>   		WARN_ON(link->status != DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * autoremove the links between this @dev and its consumer
> +		 * devices that are not active, i.e. where the link state
> +		 * has moved to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND.
> +		 */
> +		if (link->status == DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND &&
> +		    link->flags & DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER)
> +			kref_put(&link->kref, __device_link_del);
> +
>   		WRITE_ONCE(link->status, DL_STATE_DORMANT);
>   	}
>   
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index 3929805cdd59..e80920452b49 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -787,11 +787,13 @@ enum device_link_state {
>    * AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER: Remove the link automatically on consumer driver unbind.
>    * PM_RUNTIME: If set, the runtime PM framework will use this link.
>    * RPM_ACTIVE: Run pm_runtime_get_sync() on the supplier during link creation.
> + * AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER: Remove the link automatically on supplier driver unbind.
>    */
>   #define DL_FLAG_STATELESS		BIT(0)
>   #define DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER	BIT(1)
>   #define DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME		BIT(2)
>   #define DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE		BIT(3)
> +#define DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER	BIT(4)
>   
>   /**
>    * struct device_link - Device link representation.