Re: [PATCH] dd: Invoke one probe retry cycle after every initcall level

From: rishabhb
Date: Mon Jul 23 2018 - 16:22:55 EST


On 2018-07-23 04:17, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:24 PM, Rishabh Bhatnagar
<rishabhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Drivers that are registered at an initcall level may have to
wait until late_init before the probe deferral mechanism can
retry their probe functions. It is possible that their
dependencies were resolved much earlier, in some cases even
before the next initcall level. Invoke one probe retry cycle
at every _sync initcall level, allowing these drivers to be
probed earlier.

Can you please say something about the actual use case this is
expected to address?
We have a display driver that depends 3 other devices to be
probed so that it can bring-up the display. Because of dependencies
not being met the deferral mechanism defers the probes for a later time,
even though the dependencies might be met earlier. With this change
display can be brought up much earlier.

Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/dd.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 1435d72..e6a6821 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -224,23 +224,44 @@ void device_unblock_probing(void)
driver_deferred_probe_trigger();
}

+static void enable_trigger_defer_cycle(void)
+{
+ driver_deferred_probe_enable = true;
+ driver_deferred_probe_trigger();
+ /*
+ * Sort as many dependencies as possible before the next initcall
+ * level
+ */
+ flush_work(&deferred_probe_work);
+}
+
/**
* deferred_probe_initcall() - Enable probing of deferred devices
*
* We don't want to get in the way when the bulk of drivers are getting probed.
* Instead, this initcall makes sure that deferred probing is delayed until
- * late_initcall time.
+ * all the registered initcall functions at a particular level are completed.
+ * This function is invoked at every *_initcall_sync level.
*/
static int deferred_probe_initcall(void)
{
- driver_deferred_probe_enable = true;
- driver_deferred_probe_trigger();
- /* Sort as many dependencies as possible before exiting initcalls */
- flush_work(&deferred_probe_work);
+ enable_trigger_defer_cycle();
+ driver_deferred_probe_enable = false;
+ return 0;
+}
+arch_initcall_sync(deferred_probe_initcall);
+subsys_initcall_sync(deferred_probe_initcall);
+fs_initcall_sync(deferred_probe_initcall);
+device_initcall_sync(deferred_probe_initcall);
+
+static int deferred_probe_enable_fn(void)
+{
+ /* Enable deferred probing for all time */
+ enable_trigger_defer_cycle();
initcalls_done = true;
return 0;
}
-late_initcall(deferred_probe_initcall);
+late_initcall(deferred_probe_enable_fn);

/**
* device_is_bound() - Check if device is bound to a driver
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