[PATCH] of/platform: Move platform devices under /sys/devices/platform

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:36:19 +0100
, Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda at samsung.com>
 wrote:
> On 11/04/2014 11:45 AM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Currently the devices created by drivers/of/platform.c get created at
> > the root of /sys/devices. This goes against the typical pattern for
> > sysfs where the top level /sys/devices structure contains categories of
> > devices, and the structure of devices is placed below that. To fix this,
> > make the code in drivers/of/platform.c follow the drivers/base/platform.c
> > behaviour, and use &platform_bus as the default parent for all new
> > platform_devices and amba_devices.
> > 
> > This change has been discussed for a long time, but nobody has actually
> > acted on it. Userspace code that expects to find devices under a fixed
> > /sys/devices/... path will be affected. It isn't /supposed/ to do that,
> > but if anyone complains then I'll add a default-off workaround option to
> > put them back into the root.
> 
> One of side effects of this change is that platform drivers registering
> other platform drivers or devices in their probe callback can deadlock
> due to double device_lock on platform device. This is for example case
> of exynos_drm driver[1]. I guess it could/should be fixed in exynos_drm.
> Anyway it can affect other drivers as well. At least grep shows few
> possible candidates:

What on earth is that driver doing registering additional drivers in the
probe hook?!? That's madness, and should be treated as a bug.

g.

> 
> $ git grep -p platform_driver_register | grep -A1 -P '_probe\(struct
> platform_device'
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_drv.c=static int
> exynos_drm_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_drm_drv.c:	ret =
> platform_driver_register(&fimd_driver);
> --
> drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drm_drv.c=static int
> sti_drm_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> drivers/gpu/drm/sti/sti_drm_drv.c:
> platform_driver_register(&sti_drm_master_driver);
> --
> drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c=static int atmel_nand_probe(struct
> platform_device *pdev)
> drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c:	res =
> platform_driver_register(&atmel_nand_nfc_driver);
> 
> 
> [1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/117727
> 
> Regards
> Andrzej
> 
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/of/platform.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > index 3b64d0bf5bba..7c6771986c06 100644
> > --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> > @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ struct platform_device *of_device_alloc(struct device_node *np,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(np);
> > -	dev->dev.parent = parent;
> > +	dev->dev.parent = parent ? : &platform_bus;
> >  
> >  	if (bus_id)
> >  		dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id);
> > @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static struct amba_device *of_amba_device_create(struct device_node *node,
> >  
> >  	/* setup generic device info */
> >  	dev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(node);
> > -	dev->dev.parent = parent;
> > +	dev->dev.parent = parent ? : &platform_bus;
> >  	dev->dev.platform_data = platform_data;
> >  	if (bus_id)
> >  		dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%s", bus_id);
> > 
>