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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:00:55 +0800
From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc: kay.sievers@...y.org, greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: check bus->match without holding device lock
Thanks a lot for your reply.
I'll resend a patch with your suggestions.
2009/1/20 Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:34:08 +0800,
> tom.leiming@...il.com wrote:
>
>> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
>>
>> This patch moves bus->match out from driver_probe_device and
>> does not hold device lock to check the match between a device
>> and a driver.
>>
>> The idea has been verified by the commit 6cd495860901,
>> which leads to a faster boot. But the commit 6cd495860901 has
>> the following drawbacks: 1),only does the quick check in
>> the path of __driver_attach->driver_probe_device, not in other
>> paths; 2),for a matched device and driver, check the same match
>> twice. It is a waste of cpu ,especially for some drivers with long
>> device id table (eg. usb-storage driver).
>
> I agree with the goal of that patch, as it essentially cleanly
> seperates the quick check (->match) from the deeper probing (->probe).
>
>>
>> This patch adds a helper of driver_match_device to check the match
>> in all paths, and testes the match only once.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/base/bus.c | 8 +++++++-
>> drivers/base/dd.c | 19 +++++++------------
>> include/linux/device.h | 6 ++++++
>> 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
>> index 83f32b8..c570d16 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/bus.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
>> @@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ static ssize_t driver_bind(struct device_driver *drv,
>>
>> dev = bus_find_device_by_name(bus, NULL, buf);
>> if (dev && dev->driver == NULL) {
>> +
>> + if (!driver_match_device(drv, dev)) {
>> + err = 0;
>> + goto not_match;
>> + }
>> +
>
> This looks too complicated, I'd just change the if to
> if (dev && dev->driver == NULL && driver_match_device(drv,dev))
>
>> if (dev->parent) /* Needed for USB */
>> down(&dev->parent->sem);
>> down(&dev->sem);
>> @@ -206,7 +212,7 @@ static ssize_t driver_bind(struct device_driver *drv,
>> up(&dev->sem);
>> if (dev->parent)
>> up(&dev->parent->sem);
>> -
>> +not_match:
>> if (err > 0) {
>> /* success */
>> err = count;
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
>> index 315bed8..61f32db 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
>> @@ -172,14 +172,8 @@ int driver_probe_done(void)
>> * @drv: driver to bind a device to
>> * @dev: device to try to bind to the driver
>> *
>> - * First, we call the bus's match function, if one present, which should
>> - * compare the device IDs the driver supports with the device IDs of the
>> - * device. Note we don't do this ourselves because we don't know the
>> - * format of the ID structures, nor what is to be considered a match and
>> - * what is not.
>> - *
>> - * This function returns 1 if a match is found, -ENODEV if the device is
>> - * not registered, and 0 otherwise.
>> + * This function returns -ENODEV if the device is not registered,
>> + * and 0 otherwise.
>
> This is incorrect, really_probe() still returns 1 if the device could
> be bound.
>
>> *
>> * This function must be called with @dev->sem held. When called for a
>> * USB interface, @dev->parent->sem must be held as well.
>> @@ -190,21 +184,22 @@ int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *drv, struct device *dev)
>>
>> if (!device_is_registered(dev))
>> return -ENODEV;
>> - if (drv->bus->match && !drv->bus->match(dev, drv))
>> - goto done;
>>
>> pr_debug("bus: '%s': %s: matched device %s with driver %s\n",
>> drv->bus->name, __func__, dev_name(dev), drv->name);
>>
>> ret = really_probe(dev, drv);
>>
>> -done:
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> static int __device_attach(struct device_driver *drv, void *data)
>> {
>> struct device *dev = data;
>> +
>> + if (!driver_match_device(drv, dev))
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> return driver_probe_device(drv, dev);
>> }
>>
>> @@ -257,7 +252,7 @@ static int __driver_attach(struct device *dev, void *data)
>> * is an error.
>> */
>>
>> - if (drv->bus->match && !drv->bus->match(dev, drv))
>> + if (!driver_match_device(drv, dev))
>> return 0;
>>
>> if (dev->parent) /* Needed for USB */
>> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
>> index 45e5b19..3c61315 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/device.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
>> @@ -466,6 +466,12 @@ static inline int device_is_registered(struct device *dev)
>> return dev->kobj.state_in_sysfs;
>> }
>>
>> +static inline int driver_match_device(struct device_driver *drv,
>> + struct device *dev)
>> +{
>> + return drv->bus->match && drv->bus->match(dev, drv);
>> +}
>> +
>
> This should go into drivers/base/base.h instead, as no code outside the
> driver core should use it.
>
>> void driver_init(void);
>>
>> /*
>
--
Lei Ming
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