linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/9] software_node: Add helper function to unregister arrays of software

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Message-ID: <20201021094009.GN4077@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:40:09 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dan Scally <djrscally@...il.com>
Cc:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/9] software_node: Add helper function to
 unregister arrays of software_nodes ordered parent to child

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:52:56PM +0100, Dan Scally wrote:
> On 20/10/2020 11:05, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:58:55PM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote:
> >> Software nodes that are children of another software node should be
> >> unregistered before their parent. To allow easy unregistering of an array
> >> of software_nodes ordered parent to child, add a helper function to loop
> >> over and unregister nodes in such an array in reverse order.

...

> >> + * software_node_unregister_nodes_reverse - Unregister an array of software
> >> + * nodes in reverse order.
> >> + * @nodes: Array of software nodes to be unregistered.
> >> + *
> >> + * NOTE: The same warning applies as with software_node_unregister_nodes.
> >> + * Unless you are _sure_ that the array of nodes is ordered parent to child
> >> + * it is wiser to remove them individually in the correct order.
> > Could the default order in software_node_unregister_nodes() be reversed
> > instead? There are no users so this should be easy to change.
> >
> > Doing this only one way may require enforcing the registration order in
> > software_node_register_nodes(), but the end result would be safer.
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Yeah fine by me. We can just use software_node_to_swnode(node->parent)
> within software_node_unregister_nodes() to check that children come
> after their parents have already been processed. I'll add a patch to do
> that in the next version of this series, and another changing the
> ordering of software_node_unregister_node_group() as Andy suggests for
> consistency.

I remember it was a big discussion between Rafael, Heikki and Greg KH about
child-parent release in kobjects. That ended up with few patches to device
object handling along with one that reversed the order of swnode unregistering
in test_printf.c. So here is the question who is maintaining the order: a kref
(via kobject) or a caller?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko