[PATCH v6 0/22] On-demand device probing
Tomeu Vizoso
tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com
Tue Sep 29 01:08:16 PDT 2015
On 26 September 2015 at 20:17, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On 09/21/2015 09:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with the panel on my Tegra Chromebook taking longer
>> than expected to be ready during boot (Stéphane Marchesin reported what
>> is basically the same issue in [0]), and have looked into ordered
>> probing as a better way of solving this than moving nodes around in the
>> DT or playing with initcall levels and linking order.
>>
>> While reading the thread [1] that Alexander Holler started with his
>> series to make probing order deterministic, it occurred to me that it
>> should be possible to achieve the same by probing devices as they are
>> referenced by other devices.
>>
>> This basically reuses the information that is already implicit in the
>> probe() implementations, saving us from refactoring existing drivers or
>> adding information to DTBs.
>>
>> During review of v1 of this series Linus Walleij suggested that it
>> should be the device driver core to make sure that dependencies are
>> ready before probing a device. I gave this idea a try [2] but Mark Brown
>> pointed out to the logic duplication between the resource acquisition
>> and dependency discovery code paths (though I think it's fairly minor).
>>
>> To address that code duplication I experimented with Arnd's devm_probe
>> [3] concept of having drivers declare their dependencies instead of
>> acquiring them during probe, and while it worked [4], I don't think we
>> end up winning anything when compared to just probing devices on-demand
>> from resource getters.
>>
>> One remaining objection is to the "sprinkling" of calls to
>> of_device_probe() in the resource getters of each subsystem, but I think
>> it's the right thing to do given that the storage of resources is
>> currently subsystem-specific.
>>
>> We could avoid the above by moving resource storage into the core, but I
>> don't think there's a compelling case for that.
>>
>> I have tested this on boards with Tegra, iMX.6, Exynos, Rockchip and
>> OMAP SoCs, and these patches were enough to eliminate all the deferred
>> probes (except one in PandaBoard because omap_dma_system doesn't have a
>> firmware node as of yet).
>>
>> Have submitted a branch [5][6][7] with these patches on top of today's
>> linux-next (20150921) to kernelci.org and I don't see any issues that
>> could be caused by them.
>>
>> With this series I get the kernel to output to the panel in 0.5s,
>> instead of 2.8s.
>
> I think we're pretty close other than some minor comments. I would like
> to see ack's from Greg and some reviewed-bys from others. The subsystem
> changes are minor and there has been plenty of chance to comment, so I
> don't think acks from all subsystems are needed.
>
> Your branch is based on -next. Is there any dependence on something in
> -next? I want to get this into -next soon, but need a branch not based
> on -next. Please send me a pull request with the collected acks and
> minor comments I have addressed.
Great, I'm going to send one more revision rebased on top of v4.3-rc1,
without 21 and with the minor changes you suggested, and once Greg is
happy I can send the pull request.
Thanks,
Tomeu
> Rob
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-August/066527.html
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/12/452
>>
>> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/17/305
>>
>> [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/277689
>>
>> [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/21/441a
>>
>> [5] https://git.collabora.com/cgit/user/tomeu/linux.git/log/?h=on-demand-probes-v8
>>
>> [6] http://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/collabora/kernel/v4.3-rc2-2587-gf92b0ab33d14/
>>
>> [7] http://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/next/kernel/next-20150921
>>
>> Changes in v6:
>> - Drop bus_type.pre_probe and read the periphid in match() instead as
>> suggested by Alan Stern.
>> - Merge changes to the regulator subsystem's locking so no references
>> are leaked between commits.
>>
>> Changes in v5:
>> - Set the pointer to struct device also for AMBA devices
>> - Unset the pointer to struct device when the platform device is about
>> to be unregistered
>> - Increase the reference count of the device before returning from
>> of_find_device_by_node()
>> - Move the assignment to device_node->device for AMBA devices to another
>> commit.
>> - Hold a reference to the struct device while it's in use in
>> of_device_probe().
>> - Use regulator_class' klist of devices instead of regulator_list to
>> store and lookup regulator devices.
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>> - Added bus.pre_probe callback so the probes of Primecell devices can be
>> deferred if their device IDs cannot be yet read because of the clock
>> driver not having probed when they are registered. Maybe this goes
>> overboard and the matching information should be in the DT if there is
>> one.
>> - Rename of_platform_probe to of_device_probe
>> - Use device_node.device instead of device_node.platform_dev
>> - Add Kconfig DELAY_DEVICE_PROBES to allow disabling delayed probing in
>> machines with initcalls that depend on devices probing at a given time.
>> - Start processing deferred probes in device_initcall_sync
>> - Also defer probes of AMBA devices registered from the DT as they can
>> also request resources.
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Set and use device_node.platform_dev instead of reversing the logic to
>> find the platform device that encloses a device node.
>> - Drop the fwnode API to probe firmware nodes and add OF-only API for
>> now. I think this same scheme could be used for machines with ACPI,
>> but I haven't been able to find one that had to defer its probes because
>> of the device probe order.
>>
>> Tomeu Vizoso (22):
>> driver core: handle -EPROBE_DEFER from bus_type.match()
>> ARM: amba: Move reading of periphid to amba_match()
>> of/platform: Point to struct device from device node
>> of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node
>> gpio: Probe GPIO drivers on demand
>> gpio: Probe pinctrl devices on demand
>> regulator: core: Remove regulator_list
>> regulator: core: Probe regulators on demand
>> drm: Probe panels on demand
>> drm/tegra: Probe dpaux devices on demand
>> i2c: core: Probe i2c adapters and devices on demand
>> pwm: Probe PWM chip devices on demand
>> backlight: Probe backlight devices on demand
>> usb: phy: Probe phy devices on demand
>> clk: Probe clk providers on demand
>> pinctrl: Probe pinctrl devices on demand
>> phy: core: Probe phy providers on demand
>> dma: of: Probe DMA controllers on demand
>> power-supply: Probe power supplies on demand
>> driver core: Allow deferring probes until late init
>> driver core: Start processing deferred probes earlier
>> of/platform: Defer probes of registered devices
>>
>> drivers/amba/bus.c | 88 ++++++------
>> drivers/base/Kconfig | 18 +++
>> drivers/base/dd.c | 35 ++++-
>> drivers/clk/clk.c | 3 +
>> drivers/dma/of-dma.c | 3 +
>> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c | 5 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panel.c | 3 +
>> drivers/gpu/drm/tegra/dpaux.c | 3 +
>> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 4 +
>> drivers/of/device.c | 61 +++++++++
>> drivers/of/platform.c | 30 +++--
>> drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 3 +
>> drivers/pinctrl/devicetree.c | 3 +
>> drivers/power/power_supply_core.c | 3 +
>> drivers/pwm/core.c | 3 +
>> drivers/regulator/core.c | 257 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> drivers/usb/phy/phy.c | 3 +
>> drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 3 +
>> include/linux/device.h | 4 +-
>> include/linux/of.h | 1 +
>> include/linux/of_device.h | 3 +
>> 21 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
>>
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