[PATCH v2 00/11] fw_devlink improvements

[Rob Herring]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 7:33 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 1:39 AM Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > пт, 3 февр. 2023 г. в 09:07, Saravana Kannan <saravanak at google.com>:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 9:36 AM Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Saravana,
> > > >
> > > > > Can you try the patch at the end of this email under these
> > > > > configurations and tell me which ones fail vs pass? I don't need logs
> > > >
> > > > I did these tests and here is the results:
> > >
> > > Did you hand edit the In-Reply-To: in the header? Because in the
> > > thread you are reply to the wrong email, but the context in your email
> > > seems to be from the right email.
> > >
> > > For example, see how your reply isn't under the email you are replying
> > > to in this thread overview:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230127001141.407071-1-saravanak@google.com/#r
> > >
> > > > 1. On top of this series - Not works
> > > > 2. Without this series    - Works
> > > > 3. On top of the series with the fwnode_dev_initialized() deleted - Not works
> > > > 4. Without this series, with the fwnode_dev_initialized() deleted  - Works
> > > >
> > > > So your nvmem/core.c patch helps only when it is applied without the series.
> > > > But despite the fact that this helps to avoid getting stuck at probing
> > > > my ethernet device, there is still regression.
> > > >
> > > > When the ethernet module is loaded it takes a lot of time to drop dependency
> > > > from the nvmem-cell with mac address.
> > > >
> > > > Please look at the kernel logs below.
> > >
> > > The kernel logs below really aren't that useful for me in their
> > > current state. See more below.
> > >
> > > ---8<---- <snip> --->8----
> > >
> > > > P.S. Your nvmem patch definitely helps to avoid a device probe stuck
> > > > but look like it is not best way to solve a problem which we discussed
> > > > in the MTD thread.
> > > >
> > > > P.P.S. Also I don't know why your nvmem-cell patch doesn't help when it was
> > > > applied on top of this series. Maybe I missed something.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I'm not too sure if the test was done correctly. You also didn't
> > > answer my question about the dts from my earlier email.
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAGETcx8FpmbaRm2CCwqt3BRBpgbogwP5gNB+iA5OEtuxWVTNLA@mail.gmail.com/#t
> > >
> > > So, can you please retest config 1 with all pr_debug and dev_dbg in
> > > drivers/core/base.c changed to the _info variants? And then share the
> > > kernel log from the beginning of boot? Maybe attach it to the email so
> > > it doesn't get word wrapped by your email client. And please point me
> > > to the .dts that corresponds to your board. Without that, I can't
> > > debug much.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Saravana
> >
> > > Did you hand edit the In-Reply-To: in the header? Because in the
> > > thread you are reply to the wrong email, but the context in your email
> > > seems to be from the right email.
> >
> > Sorry for that, it seems like I accidently deleted it.
> >
> > > So, can you please retest config 1 with all pr_debug and dev_dbg in
> > > drivers/core/base.c changed to the _info variants? And then share the
> > > kernel log from the beginning of boot? Maybe attach it to the email so
> > > it doesn't get word wrapped by your email client. And please point me
> > > to the .dts that corresponds to your board. Without that, I can't
> > > debug much.
> >
> > Ok, I retested config 1 with all _debug logs changed to the _info. I
> > added the kernel log and the dts file to the attachment of this email.
>
> Ah, so your device is not supported/present upstream? Even though it's
> not upstream, I'll help fix this because it should fix what I believe
> are unreported issues in upstream.
>
> Ok I know why configs 1 - 4 behaved the way they did and why my test
> patch didn't help.
>
> After staring at mtd/nvmem code for a few hours I think mtd/nvmem
> interaction is kind of a mess. mtd core creates "partition" platform
> devices (including for nvmem-cells) that are probed by drivers in
> drivers/nvmem. However, there's no driver for "nvmem-cells" partition
> platform device. However, the nvmem core creates nvmem_device when
> nvmem_register() is called by MTD or these partition platform devices
> created by MTD. But these nvmem_devices are added to a nvmem_bus but
> the bus has no means to even register a driver (it should really be a
> nvmem_class and not nvmem_bus). And the nvmem_device sometimes points
> to the DT node of the MTD device or sometimes the partition platform
> devices or maybe no DT node at all.
>
> So it's a mess of multiple devices pointing to the same DT node with
> no clear way to identify which ones will point to a DT node and which
> ones will probe and which ones won't. In the future, we shouldn't
> allow adding new compatible strings for partitions for which we don't
> plan on adding nvmem drivers.

That won't work. Having a compatible string cannot mean there must be a driver.

Rob