[RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Core device subsystem

Michał Mirosław mirqus at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 14:37:52 EDT 2011


W dniu 8 lipca 2011 20:13 użytkownik Michał Mirosław <mirqus at gmail.com> napisał:
> W dniu 8 lipca 2011 17:13 użytkownik Marc Zyngier
> <marc.zyngier at arm.com> napisał:
>> On 08/07/11 14:08, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> So you're basically folding of_core_device_populate() and
>>> core_driver_init_class() into one call, and generating the
>>> of_device_ids on the fly. If you're going down that road,
>>> it would be even simpler to directly use of_device_ids
>>> instead of core_device_ids and skip the generation altogether.
>>>
>>> That would also remove the static declaration of devices to be
>>> probed in the architecture support code...
>>>
>>> Let me think of it and prototype that.
>>
>> See the attached patch against branch dt_gic_twd from
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git
>>
>> It boots fine on my PB11MP.
>>
>> What do you think?
[...]
>> --- a/arch/arm/common/gic.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
>> @@ -712,9 +712,9 @@ static int __init gic_core_init(struct core_device *dev)
>>        return 0;
>>  }
>>
>> -static struct core_device_id gic_ids[] __initdata = {
>> -       { .name = "arm,gic-spi" }, /* DT */
>> -       { .name = "arm_gic" },     /* Static device */
>> +static struct of_device_id gic_ids[] __initdata = {
>> +       { .compatible = "arm,gic-spi" }, /* DT */
>> +       { .name = "arm_gic" },           /* Static device */
>>        { },
>>  };
>
> This will also match devices with name "arm_gic" in DT. Unlikely, but
> probably not what you want.
>
> I thought about something more evil. ;) See below.
>
> Assuming we modify of_find_matching_node() to also return matched ID entry:
>
> ---- of_core_device_populate()
>
> const struct of_device_id *id;
> struct device_node *dn;
> struct core_device *dev;
>
> for_each_matching_node_id(dn, matches, id) {
>  dev = create_core_dev(...);
>  dev->init = id->data;
>  add_to_list(class, dev);
> }
>
> if (intc class)
>  sort_list()
>
> ----
>
> And then drivers would register like this:
>
> int __init etc_init(struct core_device *);
>
> DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_DT(class, name) = {
>  { .compatible = "etc", .data = etc_init },
> };
>
> DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_LEGACY(class, name) = {
>  { .name = "etc", .data = etc_init },
> };
>
>
> This removes the need for struct core_driver and instead uses linker
> to directly generate match tables for INTC and TIMER classes. This
> also allows to get rid of legacy IDs when kernel is built with support
> for boards not using DT.

DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_* could be implemented like this:

#define __DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE(type,cls,name) \
  static const struct of_device_id __coredev_##type##_##name##_##cls[] \
    __used __section(.init.coredev_##type##_##cls)

#define DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_DT_IRQ(name) \
  __DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE(dt, irq, name)
#define DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_LEGACY_IRQ(name) \
  __DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE(legacy, irq, name)
#define DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_DT_TIMER(name) \
  __DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE(dt, timer, name)
#define DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE_LEGACY_TIMER(name) \
  __DEFINE_CORE_DEVICE_TABLE(legacy, timer, name)

(I folded 'class' parameter into the define's name but that might not
be the best idea if the class set is to be expanded - compiler error
for invalid classes can be generated also in other ways.)

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław



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