linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/25] clk: Fix debugfs clk_possible_parents for clks without parent string names

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Date:   Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:14:01 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
Cc:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/25] clk: Fix debugfs clk_possible_parents for clks without parent string names

Quoting Chen-Yu Tsai (2019-05-20 01:03:57)
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> index aa51756fd4d6..bdb077ba59b9 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
> @@ -3000,12 +3000,16 @@ DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(clk_flags);
>  static int possible_parents_show(struct seq_file *s, void *data)
>  {
>         struct clk_core *core = s->private;
> +       struct clk_core *parent;
>         int i;
>  
> -       for (i = 0; i < core->num_parents - 1; i++)
> -               seq_printf(s, "%s ", core->parents[i].name);
> +       for (i = 0; i < core->num_parents - 1; i++) {
> +               parent = clk_core_get_parent_by_index(core, i);
> +               seq_printf(s, "%s ", parent ? parent->name : NULL);
> +       }
>  
> -       seq_printf(s, "%s\n", core->parents[i].name);
> +       parent = clk_core_get_parent_by_index(core, i);
> +       seq_printf(s, "%s", parent ? parent->name : NULL);

What do we do if the parent won't appear on this system, but we've
listed it as a possible parent with the '.fw_name' string? Is that not a
"possible" parent because it won't ever appear?

I'm mostly saying that we should try to detect these corner cases and
print something besides NULL. Maybe we could even print the fallback
'.name' if clk_core_get_parent_by_index() fails (and '.name' isn't
NULL).  Then we're left with the case where even the fallback '.name' is
NULL, and we can print something like "<fw_name> (fw)" to indicate that
we're waiting for the kernel to probe a provider for that parent, but
the firmware name is <fw_name> and that's all we know.