linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/1] serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM

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Message-ID: <Y5G5Udw6FAEFdAYi@atomide.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Dec 2022 12:15:45 +0200
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/1] serial: core: Start managing serial
 controllers to enable runtime PM

* Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com> [221208 09:12]:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2022, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > +	ret = serial_core_add_one_port(drv, port);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	mutex_lock(&port_mutex);
> > +
> > +	/* Inititalize a serial core controller device if needed */
> > +	ctrl_dev = serial_core_ctrl_find(drv, port->dev, port->ctrl_id);
> > +	if (!ctrl_dev) {
> > +		ctrl_dev = serial_core_ctrl_device_add(port);
> > +		if (!ctrl_dev)
> > +			goto err_remove_port;
> > +		allocated = true;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	/* Initialize a serial core port device */
> > +	ret = serial_core_port_device_add(ctrl_dev, port);
> 
> How is ->port_dev supposed to work here?
> 
> ->port_dev is not set until in serial_core_port_device_add() but you made
> serial_core_add_one_port() call before that.

Hmm do you mean you want to call serial_core_add_one_port() later after
serial_core_port_device_add()?

Or are you seeing some uninitialized use of port->port_dev (and not
port->dev)?

Regards,

Tony