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2019-10-04driver core: Add support for linking devices during device additionSaravana Kannan
The firmware corresponding to a device (dev.fwnode) might be able to provide functional dependency information between a device and its supplier and consumer devices. Tracking this functional dependency allows optimizing device probe order and informing a supplier when all its consumers have probed (and thereby actively managing their resources). The existing device links feature allows tracking and using supplier-consumer relationships. So, this patch adds the add_links() fwnode callback to allow firmware to create device links for each device as the device is added. However, when consumer devices are added, they might not have a supplier device to link to despite needing mandatory resources/functionality from one or more suppliers. A waiting_for_suppliers list is created to track such consumers and retry linking them when new devices get added. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190904211126.47518-3-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-25driver core: Remove device link creation limitationRafael J. Wysocki
If device_link_add() is called for a consumer/supplier pair with an existing device link between them and the existing link's type is not in agreement with the flags passed to that function by its caller, NULL will be returned. That is seriously inconvenient, because it forces the callers of device_link_add() to worry about what others may or may not do even if that is not relevant to them for any other reasons. It turns out, however, that this limitation can be made go away relatively easily. The underlying observation is that if DL_FLAG_STATELESS has been passed to device_link_add() in flags for the given consumer/supplier pair at least once, calling either device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to release the link returned by it should work, but there are no other requirements associated with that flag. In turn, if at least one of the callers of device_link_add() for the given consumer/supplier pair has not passed DL_FLAG_STATELESS to it in flags, the driver core should track the status of the link and act on it as appropriate (ie. the link should be treated as "managed"). This means that DL_FLAG_STATELESS needs to be set for managed device links and it should be valid to call device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to drop references to them in certain sutiations. To allow that to happen, introduce a new (internal) device link flag called DL_FLAG_MANAGED and make device_link_add() set it automatically whenever DL_FLAG_STATELESS is not passed to it. Also make it take additional references to existing device links that were previously stateless (that is, with DL_FLAG_STATELESS set and DL_FLAG_MANAGED unset) and will need to be managed going forward and initialize their status (which has been DL_STATE_NONE so far). Accordingly, when a managed device link is dropped automatically by the driver core, make it clear DL_FLAG_MANAGED, reset the link's status back to DL_STATE_NONE and drop the reference to it associated with DL_FLAG_MANAGED instead of just deleting it right away (to allow it to stay around in case it still needs to be released explicitly by someone). With that, since setting DL_FLAG_STATELESS doesn't mean that the device link in question is not managed any more, replace all of the status-tracking checks against DL_FLAG_STATELESS with analogous checks against DL_FLAG_MANAGED and update the documentation to reflect these changes. While at it, make device_link_add() reject flags that it does not recognize, including DL_FLAG_MANAGED. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Review-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2305283.AStDPdUUnE@kreacher Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-11Merge tag 'topic/component-typed-2019-02-11' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into driver-core-next Daniel writes: typed componented support + i915/snd-hda changes This is needed by the new MEI-HDCP support in i915, so will need to go in through drm and drivers-misc trees at least. * tag 'topic/component-typed-2019-02-11' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel: i915/snd_hdac: I915 subcomponent for the snd_hdac components: multiple components for a device component: Add documentation
2019-02-08component: Add documentationDaniel Vetter
While typing these I think doing an s/component_master/aggregate/ would be useful: - it's shorter :-) - I think component/aggregate is much more meaningful naming than component/puppetmaster or something like that. At least to my English ear "aggregate" emphasizes much more the "assemble a pile of things into something bigger" aspect, and there's not really much of a control hierarchy between aggregate and constituing components. But that's way more than a quick doc typing exercise ... Thanks to Ram for commenting on an initial draft of these docs. v2: Review from Rafael: - git add Documenation/driver-api/component.rst - lots of polish to the wording + spelling fixes. v3: Review from Russell: - s/framework/helper - clarify the documentation for component_match_add functions. v4: Remove a few superflous "This". Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "C, Ramalingam" <ramalingam.c@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190207232759.14553-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
2019-02-08driver core: Document limitation related to DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVERafael J. Wysocki
If device_link_add() is called twice in a row to create a stateless device link for the same consumer-supplier pair without an attempt to delete the link between these calls, and the second caller passes DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE to it in flags, calling either device_link_del() or device_link_remove() immediately after that will leave the link's supplier device with nonzero PM-runtime usage counter, which may prevent the supplier from being runtime-suspended going forward until the link is deleted by another invocation of device_link_del() or device_link_remove() for it. Even though this is confusing and may lead to subtle issues, trying to avoid it in the framework also may cause problems to appear, so document it as a known limitation. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01driver core: Add device link flag DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMERRafael J. Wysocki
Add a new device link flag, DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER, to request the driver core to probe for a consumer driver automatically after binding a driver to the supplier device on a persistent managed device link. As unbinding the supplier driver on a managed device link causes the consumer driver to be detached from its device automatically, this flag provides a complementary mechanism which is needed to address some "composite device" use cases. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01driver core: Make driver core own stateful device linksRafael J. Wysocki
Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected to drop references to them via device_link_del() or device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the "persistent" link concept. If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice. This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links. These device links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just fine. For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too. After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link without incrementing its reference counter. Accordingly, device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link. Thus, effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver core. In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that (a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add() is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair. Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the above changes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01driver core: Fix adding device links to probing suppliersRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, it is not valid to add a device link from a consumer driver ->probe callback to a supplier that is still probing too, but generally this is a valid use case. For example, if the consumer has just acquired a resource that can only be available if the supplier is functional, adding a device link to that supplier right away should be safe (and even desirable arguably), but device_link_add() doesn't handle that case correctly and the initial state of the link created by it is wrong then. To address this problem, change the initial state of device links added between a probing supplier and a probing consumer to DL_STATE_CONSUMER_PROBE and update device_links_driver_bound() to skip such links on the supplier side. With this change, if the supplier probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will skip the link state update and when it is called for the consumer, the link state will be updated to "active". In turn, if the consumer probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will change the state of the link to "active" and when it is called for the supplier, the link status update will be skipped. However, in principle the supplier or consumer probe may still fail after the link has been added, so modify device_links_no_driver() to change device links in the "active" or "consumer probe" state to "dormant" on the supplier side and update __device_links_no_driver() to change the link state to "available" only if it is "consumer probe" or "active". Then, if the supplier probe fails first, the leftover link to the probing consumer will become "dormant" and device_links_no_driver() called for the consumer (when its probe fails) will clean it up. In turn, if the consumer probe fails first, it will either drop the link, or change its state to "available" and, in the latter case, when device_links_no_driver() is called for the supplier, it will update the link state to "dormant". [If the supplier probe fails, but the consumer probe succeeds, which should not happen as long as the consumer driver is correct, the link still will be around, but it will be "dormant" until the supplier is probed again.] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-07-09driver core: Add flag to autoremove device link on supplier unbindVivek Gautam
Add a flag to autoremove the device links on supplier driver unbind. This obviates the need to explicitly delete the link in the remove path. We remove these links only when the supplier's link to its consumers has gone to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND state. Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-07-09driver core: Rename flag AUTOREMOVE to AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMERVivek Gautam
Now that we want to add another flag to autoremove the device link on supplier unbind, it's fair to rename the existing flag from DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE to DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER so that we can add similar flag for supplier later. And, while we are touching device.h, fix a doc build warning. Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-02-20docs / driver-api: Fix structure references in device_link.rstRafael J. Wysocki
The format of the structure references in device_link.rst is incorrect, because it doesn't cause proper references to the struct data types to be generated (for struct dev_pm_domain in particular). Fix that by using the :c:type:`struct name <name>` convention for encoding references to struct data types. Fixes: aad800403a87 (Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation) Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-12-05Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentationLukas Wunner
Document device links as introduced in v4.10 with commits: 4bdb35506b89 ("driver core: Add a wrapper around __device_release_driver()") 9ed9895370ae ("driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support") 8c73b4288496 ("PM / sleep: Make async suspend/resume of devices use device links") 21d5c57b3726 ("PM / runtime: Use device links") baa8809f6097 ("PM / runtime: Optimize the use of device links") Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> [ jc: Moved from core-api to driver-api ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>