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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 15:59:03 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/15] PCI: turn some __weak functions into callbacks

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:26:30PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Hi Bjorn and others,
> 
> Triggered by Christoph's patches, I had another go at converting
> all of the remaining pci host bridge implementations to be based
> on pci_alloc_host_bridge and a separate registration function.
> 
> This is made possible through work from Lorenzo and others to
> convert many of the existing drivers, as well as the removal
> of some of the older architectures that nobody used.
> 
> I'm adding a bit of duplication into the less maintained code
> here, but it makes everything more consistent, and gives an
> easy place to hook up callback functions etc.
> 
> The three parts of this series are:
> 
> a) push up the registration into the callers (this is where
>    code gets added)
> b) clean up some of the more common host bridge
>    implementations again to integrate that code better.
>    This could be done for the rest as well, or we could just
>    leave them alone.
> c) start moving the __weak functions into callbacks in
>    pci_host_bridge. This is intentionally incomplete, since
>    it is a lot of work to do it for all those functions,
>    and I want to get consensus on the approach first, as well
>    as maybe get other developers to help out with the rest.
> 
> Please have a look.
> 
>        Arnd
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4288331.jNpl6KXlNO@wuerfel/
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10555657/
> 
> Arnd Bergmann (15):
>   PCI: clean up legacy host bridge scan functions
>   PCI: move pci_scan_bus into callers
>   PCI: move pci_scan_root_bus into callers
>   PCI: export pci_register_host_bridge
>   PCI: move pci_create_root_bus into callers
>   powerpc/pci: fold pci_create_root_bus into pcibios_scan_phb
>   PCI/ACPI: clean up acpi_pci_root_create()
>   x86: PCI: clean up pcibios_scan_root()
>   PCI: xenfront: clean up pcifront_scan_root()
>   sparc/PCI: simplify pci_scan_one_pbm
>   PCI: hyperv: convert to pci_scan_root_bus_bridge
>   PCI: make pcibios_bus_add_device() a callback function
>   PCI: turn pcibios_alloc_irq into a callback
>   PCI: make pcibios_root_bridge_prepare a callback
>   PCI: make pcibios_add_bus/remove_bus callbacks
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/pci.c               |  40 ++-----
>  arch/ia64/pci/pci.c                   |  25 +----
>  arch/ia64/sn/kernel/io_init.c         |  27 +++++
>  arch/microblaze/pci/pci-common.c      |  27 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h |   3 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c      |  60 +++++------
>  arch/s390/pci/pci.c                   |  30 +++++-
>  arch/sh/drivers/pci/pci.c             |   1 +
>  arch/sh/drivers/pci/pcie-sh7786.c     |   3 +-
>  arch/sh/include/asm/pci.h             |   2 +
>  arch/sparc/kernel/pci.c               |  40 ++++---
>  arch/sparc/kernel/pcic.c              |  35 ++++++
>  arch/x86/pci/acpi.c                   |  15 +--
>  arch/x86/pci/common.c                 |  42 ++++----
>  arch/xtensa/kernel/pci.c              |  27 +++++
>  drivers/acpi/pci_root.c               |  43 +++++---
>  drivers/parisc/dino.c                 |  28 +++++
>  drivers/parisc/lba_pci.c              |  28 +++++
>  drivers/pci/bus.c                     |   8 +-
>  drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c   |  47 ++++----
>  drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c          |  30 +++++-
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c     |  35 ++++++
>  drivers/pci/pci-driver.c              |  13 ++-
>  drivers/pci/probe.c                   | 150 +++++++++-----------------
>  drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c            |  40 +++----
>  include/linux/acpi.h                  |   2 +
>  include/linux/pci.h                   |  17 ++-
>  27 files changed, 514 insertions(+), 304 deletions(-)

Sorry for the late response to this.

I think I'm generally on-board with this.  I admit I'm a little
hesitant about adding 200 lines of code when this is really more
"cleanup" than new functionality, but I think a lot of that is because
this series contains costs (e.g., duplicating code) for everybody but
only has the corresponding benefits for a few (ACPI, x86, xenfront).
Those cases are much closer to parity in terms of lines added/removed.

I saw some minor comments that suggested you had some updates, so I'll
watch for an updated posting.

Bjorn