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2016-05-26dm: allow setting driver_data before/during bindStephen Warren
This will allow a driver's bind function to use the driver data. One example is the Tegra186 GPIO driver, which instantiates child devices for each of its GPIO ports, yet supports two different HW instances each with a different set of ports, and identified by the udevice_id .data field. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-25fdt: Support for ISA bussesPaul Burton
Support ISA busses in much the same way as Linux does. This allows for ISA bus addresses to be translated, and only if CONFIG_OF_ISA_BUS is selected in order to avoid including the code in builds which won't need it. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-24drivers: core: device: add support to check dt compatible for a device/machineMugunthan V N
Provide an api to check whether the given device or machine is compatible with the given compat string which helps in making decisions in drivers based on device or machine compatible. Idea taken from Linux. Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
2016-05-17dm: core: Allow device names to be freed automaticallySimon Glass
Some devices have a name that is stored in allocated memory. At present there is no mechanism to free this memory when the device is unbound. Add a device flag to track whether a name is allocated and a function to add the flag. Free the memory when the device is unbound. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-17fdt: fix dev_get_addr_name node offsetStephen Warren
Use the device's own DT offset, not the device's parent's. Fixes: 43c4d44e3330 ("fdt: implement dev_get_addr_name()") Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-05-17dm: core: allow drivers to refuse to bindStephen Warren
In some cases, drivers may not want to bind to a device. Allow bind() to return -ENODEV in this case, and don't treat this as an error. This can be useful in situations where some information source other than the DT node's main status property indicates whether the device should be enabled, for example other DT properties might indicate this, or the driver might query non-DT sources such as system fuses or a version number register. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-04-25dm: core: Add dev_get_addr_ptr() to return a pointer to the reg addressStefan Roese
On some platforms (e.g. x86), the return value of dev_get_addr() can't be assigned to a pointer type variable directly. As there might be a difference between the size of fdt_addr_t and the pointer type. On x86 for example, "fdt_addr_t" is 64bit but "void *" only 32bit. So assigning the register base directly in dev_get_addr() results in this compilation warning: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size This patch introduces the new function dev_get_addr_ptr() that returns a pointer to the 'reg' address that can be used by drivers in this case. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-04-15fdt: implement dev_get_addr_name()Stephen Warren
This function parses the reg property based on an index found in the reg-names property. This is required for bindings that are written using reg-names rather than hard-coding indices in reg. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-04-14dm: device.c: Minor coding-style fixStefan Roese
Fix multi-line comment indentation in device_bind() Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-04-14dm: core: device: set pinctrl state for pinctrl devicePeng Fan
We may have pinmux settings for pinctrl device, like the following example: " &iomuxc { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_hog_1>; imx6ul-evk { pinctrl_hog_1: hoggrp-1 { fsl,pins = < MX6UL_PAD_UART1_RTS_B__GPIO1_IO19 0x17059 /* SD1 CD */ MX6UL_PAD_GPIO1_IO05__USDHC1_VSELECT 0x17059 /* SD1 VSELECT */ MX6UL_PAD_GPIO1_IO09__GPIO1_IO09 0x17059 /* SD1 RESET */ MX6UL_PAD_SNVS_TAMPER0__GPIO5_IO00 0x80000000 >; }; [......] }; " We should not only select pinctrl state for non pinctrl devices, we need also to handle pin mux settings such as pinctrl_log for pinctrl devices. So at the end of probing process of pinctrl device, select the default state of pinctrl device. Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <van.freenix@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2016-03-17syscon: Avoid returning a device on failureSimon Glass
If the device cannot be probed, syscon_get_by_driver_data() will still return a useful value in its devp parameter. Ensure that it returns NULL instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-03-14dm: core: make simple-bus compatible to simple-mfdMasahiro Yamada
Simple MFD devices can bind children without special bus configuration. Like Linux, let's handle "simple-mfd" in the same way as "simple-bus". Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-03-14dm: core: Add uclass_first_device_err() to return a valid deviceSimon Glass
A common pattern is to call uclass_first_device() and then check if it actually returns a device. Add a new function which does this, returning an error if there are no devices in that uclass. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-28dm: Remove device_probe_child()Simon Glass
This function is not used as the use case for it did not eventuate. Remove it to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-01-24dm: syscon: Allow finding devices by driver dataSimon Glass
We have a way to find a regmap by its syscon driver data value. Add the same for syscon itself. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-01-24dm: core: Display the error number when driver binding failsSimon Glass
This is often -96 (-EPFNOSUPPORT) which indicates that the uclass is not compiled in. Display the error number to make this easier to spot. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2016-01-21dm: core: Export uclass_find_device_by_of_offset()Simon Glass
It is sometimes useful to be able to find a device before probing it, perhaps to set up some platform data for it. Allow finding by of_offset also. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-21dm: core: Don't set pinctrl for pinctrl devicesSimon Glass
There is sort-of race condition when a pinctrl device is probed. The pinctrl function is called which may end up using the same device as is being probed. This results in operations being used before the device is actually probed. For now, disallow pinctrl operations on pinctrl devices while probing. An alternative solution would be to move the operation to later in the device_probe() function (for pinctrl devices only) but this needs more thought. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-20dm: core: Call uclass post_bind() after the driver's bind() methodSimon Glass
At present the uclass's post_bind() method is called before the driver's bind() method. This means that the uclass cannot use any of the information set up by the driver. Move it later in the sequence to permit this. This is an ordering change which is always fairly major in nature. The main impact is that devices which have children will not see them appear in their bind() method. From what I can see, existing drivers do not look at their children in the bind() method, so this should be safe. Conceptually this change seems to result in a 'more correct' ordering, since the uclass (which is broader than the device) gets the last word. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2016-01-20dm: core: Provide uclass_find_device_by_phandle() only when neededSimon Glass
This function cannot be used unless support is enabled for device tree control. Adjust the code to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2016-01-13Merge branch 'master' of git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot-microblazeTom Rini
2016-01-13dm: core: Add a new api to get indexed device addressMugunthan V N
Add new api to get device address based on index. Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@ti.com> Acked-by: Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com> [Rebased on master] Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com>
2016-01-13spl: dm: Add SPL_DM_SEQ_ALIAS config optionNathan Rossi
The Device Model sequence alias feature is required by some Uclasses. Instead of disabling the feature for all SPL targets allow it to be configured. The config option is disabled by default to reduce code size for targets that are not interested or do not require this feature. Signed-off-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan@nathanrossi.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
2016-01-12dm: core: Add option to configure an offset for the address translationStefan Roese
Some platforms need to ability to configure an offset to the standard addresses extracted from the device-tree. This patch allows this by adding a function to DM to configure this offset (if needed). Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Fixed space before tab: Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-12-10dm: core: Fix Kconfig text to mention SPL in SPL_OF_TRANSLATEStefan Roese
Add a remark about SPL to this Kconfig option. Otherwise its identitcal to the non-SPL version, which is confusing. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
2015-12-07dm: core: Enable SPL_SIMPLE_BUS by defaultMichal Simek
This option is needed for all SoCs which have nodes on bus. Without enabling this drivers are not found and probed. Issue was found on Zynq MMC probe. Enable this option by default. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-12-01dm: core: Add SPL Kconfig for REGMAP and SYSCONhuang lin
Add SPL Kconfig for REGMAP and SYSCON, so REGMAP and SYSCON can remove from SPL stage. Signed-off-by: Lin Huang <hl@rock-chips.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-11-19Revert "dm: Export device_remove_children / device_unbind_children"Simon Glass
This reverts commit bb52b367f6ca4a3a918e77737f4ff6a1089912d9. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-11-19dm: core: Add missing entries for manual relocationMichal Simek
Patches: "dm: core: Add a post_bind method for parents" (sha1: 0118ce79577f9b0881f99a6e4f8a79cd5014cb87) "dm: core: Add a uclass pre_probe() method for devices" (sha1: 02c07b3741f1b825934b1a6eb8f23530532dc426) "dm: core: Allow the uclass to set up a device's child after binding" (sha1: 081f2fcbd9a95ba10677065359791f8fea3f8c58) "dm: core: Allow uclass to set up a device's child before it is probed" (sha1: 83c7e434c9dd3ca81f8b763e23c1881b973bcf2f) Adds new entries to struct driver and struct uclass_driver without extending code for manual relocation. This patch fixes it for all architectures which requires MANUAL_RELOC. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-10-29Merge branch 'master' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-netTom Rini
2015-10-29dm: core: Remove unnecessary codes in uclass_pre_remove_device()Bin Meng
dev->uclass->uc_drv->per_device_auto_alloc_size is to be freed in device_free(), so is dev->seq. Remove these unnecessary codes. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-10-23dm: Rename dev_get_parentdata() to dev_get_parent_priv()Simon Glass
The current name is inconsistent with other driver model data access functions. Rename it and fix up all users. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
2015-10-21dm: core: Enable optional use of fdt_translate_address()Stefan Roese
The current "simple" address translation simple_bus_translate() is not working on some platforms (e.g. MVEBU). As here more complex "ranges" properties are used in many nodes (multiple tuples etc). This patch enables the optional use of the common fdt_translate_address() function which handles this translation correctly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2015-10-05dm: core: Don't use pinctrl for the root deviceSimon Glass
Currently when driver model starts up it finds the root uclass and the pinctrl uclass. This is because even the root node handles pinctrl processing. But this is not useful. The root node is not a real hardware device so cannot require any particular pinmux settings. Also it means that the memory leak tests fails, since they end up freeing more memory than they allocate: the marker it set after the root device and pinctrl uclass are allocated, and later once the pinctrl uclass is freed the memory used by driver model is less than when the marker was set. If a platform needs 'core' pin mulitplex settings it can do this with a driver that is probed on start-up. It would be an abuse of the root node to use this for pinctrl. To avoid this problem, only process pinctrl settings for non-root nodes. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-15fdt: add new fdt address parsing functionsStephen Warren
fdtdec_get_addr_size() hard-codes the number of cells used to represent an address or size in DT. This is incorrect in many cases depending on the DT binding for a particular node or property (e.g. it is incorrect for the "reg" property). In most cases, DT parsing code must use the properties #address-cells and #size-cells to parse addres properties. This change splits up the implementation of fdtdec_get_addr_size() so that the core logic can be used for both hard-coded and non-hard-coded cases. Various wrapper functions are implemented that support cases where hard-coded cell counts should or should not be used, and where the client does and doesn't know the parent node ID that contains the properties #address-cells and #size-cells. dev_get_addr() is updated to use the new functions. Core functionality in fdtdec_get_addr_size_fixed() is widely tested via fdtdec_get_addr_size(). I tested fdtdec_get_addr_size_auto_noparent() and dev_get_addr() by manually modifying the Tegra I2C driver to invoke them. Much of the core implementation of fdtdec_get_addr_size_fixed(), fdtdec_get_addr_size_auto_parent(), and fdtdec_get_addr_size_auto_noparent() comes from Thierry Reding's previous commit "fdt: Fix fdtdec_get_addr_size() for 64-bit". Based-on-work-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Dropped #define DEBUG at the top of fdtdec.c: Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-02dm: Provide better debugging when a device fails to bindSimon Glass
All devices should bind without error. But when they don't, they can cause driver model init to fail. A real situation where this can happen is when there is a missing uclass. Add a debug() call to dm_scan_fdt_node to make this easier to track. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-09-02dm: Improve handling of a missing uclassSimon Glass
When a uclass definition is missing, no drivers in that uclass can operate. This can happen if a board has a strange collection of options (e.g. the driver is enabled but the uclass is not). Unfortunately this is very confusing at present. Starting up driver model results in a -ENOENT error, which is pretty generic. Quite a big of digging is needed to get to the root cause. To help with this, change the error to a very strange one with no other users in U-Boot. Also add a debug message. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-31pinctrl: add pin control uclass supportMasahiro Yamada
This creates a new framework for handling of pin control devices, i.e. devices that control different aspects of package pins. This uclass handles pinmuxing and pin configuration; pinmuxing controls switching among silicon blocks that share certain physical pins, pin configuration handles electronic properties such as pin- biasing, load capacitance etc. This framework can support the same device tree bindings, but if you do not need full interface support, you can disable some features to reduce memory foot print. Typically around 1.5KB is necessary to include full-featured uclass support on ARM board (CONFIG_PINCTRL + CONFIG_PINCTRL_FULL + CONFIG_PINCTRL_GENERIC + CONFIG_PINCTRL_PINMUX), for example. We are often limited on code size for SPL. Besides, we still have many boards that do not support device tree configuration. The full pinctrl, which requires OF_CONTROL, does not make sense for those boards. So, this framework also has a Do-It-Yourself (let's say simple pinctrl) interface. With CONFIG_PINCTRL_FULL disabled, the uclass itself provides no systematic mechanism for identifying the peripheral device, applying pinctrl settings, etc. They must be done in each low-level driver. In return, you can save much memory footprint and it might be useful especially for SPL. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-31dm: core: allow device_bind() to not return a device pointerMasahiro Yamada
This is useful when we want to bind a device, but do not need the pointer to the device. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-31dm: core: Add Kconfig for simple bus driverMarek Vasut
Add Kconfig entries for the simple-bus driver, both for U-Boot and for SPL. The simple-bus is enabled by default in U-Boot and disabled by default in SPL to preserve the original behavior. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Modified to fit on top of Masahiro's $(SPL) setup: Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-31dm: Use dev_get_addr() where possibleSimon Glass
This is a convenient way for a driver to get the hardware address of a device, when regmap or syscon are not being used. Change existing callers to use it as an example to others. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
2015-08-26dm: core: Fix code reentrancy issue in device_probe_child()Bin Meng
The device might have already been probed during the call to device_probe() on its parent device (e.g. PCI bridge devices). In its parent device's probe routine, it might probe all of its child devices via device_probe() thus the codes reenter device_probe_child(). To support code reentrancy, test these allocated memory against NULL to avoid memory leak, and return to the caller if dev->flags has DM_FLAG_ACTIVATED set after device_probe() returns, so that we don't mess up the device. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-18of: clean up OF_CONTROL ifdef conditionalsMasahiro Yamada
We have flipped CONFIG_SPL_DISABLE_OF_CONTROL. We have cleansing devices, $(SPL_) and CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(), so we are ready to clear away the ugly logic in include/fdtdec.h: #ifdef CONFIG_OF_CONTROL # if defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD) && !defined(SPL_OF_CONTROL) # define OF_CONTROL 0 # else # define OF_CONTROL 1 # endif #else # define OF_CONTROL 0 #endif Now CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(OF_CONTROL) is the substitute. It refers to CONFIG_OF_CONTROL for U-boot proper and CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL for SPL. Also, we no longer have to cancel CONFIG_OF_CONTROL in include/config_uncmd_spl.h and scripts/Makefile.spl. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-08-18dm: drop CONFIG_DM_DEVICE_REMOVE from uncmd listMasahiro Yamada
We do not want to compile the DM remove code for SPL. Currently, we undef it in include/config_uncmd_spl.h (for C files) and in scripts/Makefile.uncmd_spl (for Makefiles). This is really ugly. This commit demonstrates how we can deprecate those two files. Use $(SPL_) for the entry in the Makfile and CONFIG_IS_ENABLED() in C files. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-12drivers: hierarchize drivers Kconfig menuMasahiro Yamada
The menuconfig for drivers are getting more and more cluttered and unreadable because too many entries are displayed in a single flat menu. Use hierarchic menu for each category. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> [trini: Update to apply again in a few places, drop USB hunk] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2015-08-06dm: core: Add a way to set a device nameSimon Glass
Some devices are bound entirely by probing and do not have the benefit of a device tree to give them a name. This is very common with PCI and USB. In most cases this is fine, but we should add an official way to set a device name. This should be called in the device's bind() method. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
2015-08-06devres: add debug command to dump device resourcesMasahiro Yamada
This new command can dump all device resources associated to each device. The fields in every line shows: - The address of the resource - The size of the resource - The name of the release function - The stage in which the resource has been acquired (BIND/PROBE) Currently, there is no driver using devres, but if such drivers are implemented, the output of this command should look like this: => dm devres - root_driver - soc - extbus - serial@54006800 bfb541e8 (8 byte) devm_kmalloc_release BIND bfb54440 (4 byte) devm_kmalloc_release PROBE bfb54460 (4 byte) devm_kmalloc_release PROBE - serial@54006900 bfb54270 (8 byte) devm_kmalloc_release BIND - gpio@55000000 - i2c@58780000 bfb5bce8 (12 byte) devm_kmalloc_release PROBE bfb5bd10 (4 byte) devm_kmalloc_release PROBE - eeprom bfb54418 (12 byte) devm_kmalloc_release BIND Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-06devres: make Devres optional with CONFIG_DEVRESMasahiro Yamada
Currently, Devres requires additional 16 byte for each allocation, which is not so insignificant in some cases. Add CONFIG_DEVRES to make this framework optional. If the option is disabled, devres functions fall back to non-managed variants. For example, devres_alloc() to kzalloc(), devm_kmalloc() to kmalloc(), etc. Because devres_head is also surrounded by an ifdef conditional, there is no memory overhead when CONFIG_DEVRES is disabled. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Suggested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-06devres: add devm_kmalloc() and friends (managed memory allocators)Masahiro Yamada
devm_kmalloc() is identical to kmalloc() except that the memory allocated with it is managed and will be automatically released when the device is removed/unbound. Likewise for the other variants. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2015-08-06devres: introduce Devres (Managed Device Resource) frameworkMasahiro Yamada
In U-Boot's driver model, memory is basically allocated and freed in the core framework. So, low level drivers generally only have to specify the size of needed memory with .priv_auto_alloc_size, .platdata_auto_alloc_size, etc. Nevertheless, some drivers still need to allocate/free memory on their own in case they cannot statically know the necessary memory size. So, I believe it is reasonable enough to port Devres into U-boot. Devres, which originates in Linux, manages device resources for each device and automatically releases them on driver detach. With devres, device resources are guaranteed to be freed whether initialization fails half-way or the device gets detached. The basic idea is totally the same to that of Linux, but I tweaked it a bit so that it fits in U-Boot's driver model. In U-Boot, drivers are activated in two steps: binding and probing. Binding puts a driver and a device together. It is just data manipulation on the system memory, so nothing has happened on the hardware device at this moment. When the device is really used, it is probed. Probing initializes the real hardware device to make it really ready for use. So, the resources acquired during the probing process must be freed when the device is removed. Likewise, what has been allocated in binding should be released when the device is unbound. The struct devres has a member "probe" to remember when the resource was allocated. CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is also supported for easier debugging. If enabled, debug messages are printed each time a resource is allocated/freed. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>