[PATCH V5 18/20] ARM: exynos: cpuidle: Pass the AFTR callback to the platform_data

Kukjin Kim kgene.kim at samsung.com
Thu May 15 13:40:12 PDT 2014


On 05/15/14 23:07, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Arnd, Kukjin, Daniel,
>
> On 12.05.2014 17:18, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 05/09/2014 02:02 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>>> Hi Arnd,
>>>
>>> On 09.05.2014 12:56, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Friday 11 April 2014, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>> No more dependency on the arch code. The platform_data field is used to set the
>>>>> PM callback as the other cpuidle drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano<daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar<viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz<b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>
>>>>
>>>> This has just shown up in linux-next and broken randconfig builds.
>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/exynos.c b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/exynos.c
>>>>> index fe8dac8..d22f0e4 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-exynos/exynos.c
>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-exynos/exynos.c
>>>>> @@ -221,8 +221,9 @@ void exynos_restart(enum reboot_mode mode, const char *cmd)
>>>>>    }
>>>>>
>>>>>    static struct platform_device exynos_cpuidle = {
>>>>> -       .name           = "exynos_cpuidle",
>>>>> -       .id             = -1,
>>>>> +       .name              = "exynos_cpuidle",
>>>>> +       .dev.platform_data = exynos_enter_aftr,
>>>>> +       .id                = -1,
>>>>>    };
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is wrong on many levels, can we please do this properly?
>>>>
>>>> * The exynos_enter_aftr function is compiled conditionally, so you can't just
>>>>     reference it from generic code, or you get a link error.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> That is true but still we have a link error without this patch. We
>> shouldn't register and declare this structure if CONFIG_PM /
>> CONFIG_CPU_IDLE are not set.
>>
>>>> * 'static struct platform_device ...' has been deprecated for at least a decade,
>>>>     stop doing that. For any platform devices that get registered, there is
>>>>     platform_device_register_simple().
>>>
>>> +0.5
>>>
>>> The missing 0.5 is because you can't pass platform data using
>>> platform_device_register_simple(). There is
>>> platform_device_register_resndata(), though.
>>>
>>>> * There shouldn't need to be a platform_device to start with, this should all
>>>>     come from DT. We can't do this on arm64 anyway, so any code that may be
>>>>     shared between arm32 and arm64 should have proper abstractions.
>>>
>>> -1
>>>
>>> Exynos cpuidle is not a device on the SoC, so I don't think there is any
>>> way to represent it in DT. The only thing I could see this is matching
>>> root node with a central SoC driver that instantiates specific
>>> subdevices, such as cpufreq and cpuidle, but I don't see any available
>>> infrastructure for this.
>>
>> There is a RFC for defining generic idle states [1].
>>
>> The idea behind using the platform driver framework is to unify the code
>> across the different drivers and separate the PM / cpuidle code.
>>
>> By this way, we can move the different drivers to drivers/cpuidle and
>> store them in a single place. That make easier the tracking, the review
>> and the maintenance.
>>
>> I am ok to by using platform_device_register_resndata() but I would
>> prefer to do that a bit later by converting the other drivers too. That
>> will be easier if we have them grouped in a single directory (this is
>> what does this patchset at the end).
>>
>> As there are some more work based on this patchset and the link error
>> could be fixed as an independent patch, I would recommend to
>> re-integrate it in the tree as asked by Bartlomiej.
>
> In general, it would be nice to have everything done properly, but I'd
> consider Daniel's series as a huge improvement already and a nice
> intermediate step towards further clean-up.
>
> So based on the comments quoted above, instead of stalling the
> development, I'd suggest to accept this series and then move forward.
>
I'm fine.

Arnd, how about you?

- Kukjin



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