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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQUBpu+rUfnvOwDUm8PTYYVfann3SyhhL4k=54EyfRSmLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:04:16 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>,
	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Alternative][PATCH] ACPI / PCI: Set root bridge ACPI handle in advance

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Subject: PCI / ACPI: Set root bridge ACPI handle in advance
>
> The ACPI handles of PCI root bridges need to be known to
> acpi_bind_one(), so that it can create the appropriate
> "firmware_node" and "physical_node" files for them, but currently
> the way it gets to know those handles is not exactly straightforward
> (to put it lightly).
>
> This is how it works, roughly:
>
>   1. acpi_bus_scan() finds the handle of a PCI root bridge,
>      creates a struct acpi_device object for it and passes that
>      object to acpi_pci_root_add().
>
>   2. acpi_pci_root_add() creates a struct acpi_pci_root object,
>      populates its "device" field with its argument's address
>      (device->handle is the ACPI handle found in step 1).
>
>   3. The struct acpi_pci_root object created in step 2 is passed
>      to pci_acpi_scan_root() and used to get resources that are
>      passed to pci_create_root_bus().
>
>   4. pci_create_root_bus() creates a struct pci_host_bridge object
>      and passes its "dev" member to device_register().
>
>   5. platform_notify(), which for systems with ACPI is set to
>      acpi_platform_notify(), is called.
>
> So far, so good.  Now it starts to be "interesting".
>
>   6. acpi_find_bridge_device() is used to find the ACPI handle of
>      the given device (which is the PCI root bridge) and executes
>      acpi_pci_find_root_bridge(), among other things, for the
>      given device object.
>
>   7. acpi_pci_find_root_bridge() uses the name (sic!) of the given
>      device object to extract the segment and bus numbers of the PCI
>      root bridge and passes them to acpi_get_pci_rootbridge_handle().
>
>   8. acpi_get_pci_rootbridge_handle() browses the list of ACPI PCI
>      root bridges and finds the one that matches the given segment
>      and bus numbers.  Its handle is then used to initialize the
>      ACPI handle of the PCI root bridge's device object by
>      acpi_bind_one().  However, this is *exactly* the ACPI handle we
>      started with in step 1.
>
> Needless to say, this is quite embarassing, but it may be avoided
> thanks to commit f3fd0c8 (ACPI: Allow ACPI handles of devices to be
> initialized in advance), which makes it possible to initialize the
> ACPI handle of a device before passing it to device_register().
>
> Accordingly, add a new __weak routine, pcibios_root_bridge_prepare(),
> defaulting to an empty implementation that can be replaced by the
> interested architecutres (x86 and ia64 at the moment) with functions
> that will set the root bridge's ACPI handle before its dev member is
> passed to device_register().  Make both x86 and ia64 provide such
> implementations of pcibios_root_bridge_prepare() and remove
> acpi_pci_find_root_bridge() and acpi_get_pci_rootbridge_handle() that aren't
> necessary any more.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> ---
>
> Bjorn,
>
> Since you didn't like the implementation used in the previous patch, here's
> an alternative one using a __weak function.
>
> I don't really strongly prefer any of them.  The advantage of the present one
> is that it changes fewer files and directly affects fewer architectures.  The
> disadvantage of it is the addition of the __weak "callback".
>
> I wonder what the maintainers of the architectures in question (Peter, Tony)
> think.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
> ---
>  arch/ia64/pci/pci.c     |    8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/pci/acpi.c     |    9 +++++++++
>  drivers/acpi/pci_root.c |   18 ------------------
>  drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c  |   19 -------------------
>  drivers/pci/probe.c     |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  include/acpi/acpi_bus.h |    1 -
>  include/linux/pci.h     |    2 ++
>  7 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/drivers/pci/probe.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ linux/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -1632,6 +1632,18 @@ unsigned int pci_scan_child_bus(struct p
>         return max;
>  }
>
> +/**
> + * pcibios_root_bridge_prepare - Platform-specific host bridge setup.
> + * @bridge: Host bridge to set up.
> + *
> + * Default empty implementation.  Replace with an architecture-specific setup
> + * routine, if necessary.
> + */
> +int __weak pcibios_root_bridge_prepare(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge)
> +{
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +

You may need to put that weak version to another file.

some version gcc/ld will inline the weak version directly if it is in same file.

otherwise

Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
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