linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] driver core: fw_devlink: Add DL_FLAG

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2023 23:34:11 -0800
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] driver core: fw_devlink: Add DL_FLAG_CYCLE
 support to device links

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 1:30 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 04:11:32PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > fw_devlink uses DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link flag for two
> > purposes:
> >
> > 1. To allow a parent device to proxy its child device's dependency on a
> >    supplier so that the supplier doesn't get its sync_state() callback
> >    before the child device/consumer can be added and probed. In this
> >    usage scenario, we need to ignore cycles for ensure correctness of
> >    sync_state() callbacks.
> >
> > 2. When there are dependency cycles in firmware, we don't know which of
> >    those dependencies are valid. So, we have to ignore them all wrt
> >    probe ordering while still making sure the sync_state() callbacks
> >    come correctly.
> >
> > However, when detecting dependency cycles, there can be multiple
> > dependency cycles between two devices that we need to detect. For
> > example:
> >
> > A -> B -> A and A -> C -> B -> A.
> >
> > To detect multiple cycles correct, we need to be able to differentiate
> > DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links used for (1) vs (2) above.
> >
> > To allow this differentiation, add a DL_FLAG_CYCLE that can be use to
> > mark use case (2). We can then use the DL_FLAG_CYCLE to decide which
> > DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links to follow when looking for
> > dependency cycles.
>
> ...
>
> > +static inline bool device_link_flag_is_sync_state_only(u32 flags)
> > +{
> > +     return (flags & ~(DL_FLAG_INFERRED | DL_FLAG_CYCLE))
> > +             == (DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | DL_FLAG_MANAGED);
>
> Weird indentation, why not
>
>         return (flags & ~(DL_FLAG_INFERRED | DL_FLAG_CYCLE)) ==
>                (DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | DL_FLAG_MANAGED);
>
> ?

Ack. Will fix in v3.

>
> > +}
>
> ...
>
> >                              DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER | \
> >                              DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER  | \
> >                              DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | \
> > -                            DL_FLAG_INFERRED)
> > +                            DL_FLAG_INFERRED | \
> > +                            DL_FLAG_CYCLE)
>
> You can make less churn by squeezing the new one above the last one.

I feel like this part is getting bike shedded. I'm going to leave it
as is. It's done in the order it's defined in the header and keeping
it that way makes it way more easier to read than worry about a single
line churn.


-Saravana

>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
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