Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] driver core: Support asynchronous driver shutdown

[Tanjore Suresh]

Rafael,

That is a good observation, however, many of the use cases in data
centers (deployment of devices in data centers) do not exploit device
power management. Therefore, I'm not sure that is the right way to
design this.

Also if you look into device_shutdown (drivers/base/core.c) generic
kernel routine does not exploit the shutdown method suggested by you
instead use the generic shutdown methods defined in bus, class,
drivers structures. Therefore, adopting to expand on those generic
shutdown interfaces is the incremental choice to not confuse driver
developers.

Hope this clarifies why this extension is proposed when compared to
overloading a generic shutdown entry point with device power
management requirements.

Thanks
sureshtk



On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 7:42 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:44 AM Tanjore Suresh <tansuresh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This changes the bus driver interface with additional entry points
> > to enable devices to implement asynchronous shutdown. The existing
> > synchronous interface to shutdown is unmodified and retained for
> > backward compatibility.
> >
> > This changes the common device shutdown code to enable devices to
> > participate in asynchronous shutdown implementation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tanjore Suresh <tansuresh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Is there any specific reason why you didn't follow the design of, say,
> dpm_suspend(), where the "async" devices only need to have a flag set
> and the driver is not required to implement any new callbacks?
>
> IMO having different driver interfaces for asynchronous suspend and
> shutdown would be quite confusing for driver developers, wouldn't it?
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/core.c        | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/linux/device/bus.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > index 3d6430eb0c6a..ba267ae70a22 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> > @@ -4479,6 +4479,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_change_owner);
> >  void device_shutdown(void)
> >  {
> >         struct device *dev, *parent;
> > +       LIST_HEAD(async_shutdown_list);
> >
> >         wait_for_device_probe();
> >         device_block_probing();
> > @@ -4523,7 +4524,13 @@ void device_shutdown(void)
> >                                 dev_info(dev, "shutdown_pre\n");
> >                         dev->class->shutdown_pre(dev);
> >                 }
> > -               if (dev->bus && dev->bus->shutdown) {
> > +               if (dev->bus && dev->bus->async_shutdown_start) {
> > +                       if (initcall_debug)
> > +                               dev_info(dev, "async_shutdown_start\n");
> > +                       dev->bus->async_shutdown_start(dev);
> > +                       list_add_tail(&dev->kobj.entry,
> > +                               &async_shutdown_list);
> > +               } else if (dev->bus && dev->bus->shutdown) {
> >                         if (initcall_debug)
> >                                 dev_info(dev, "shutdown\n");
> >                         dev->bus->shutdown(dev);
> > @@ -4543,6 +4550,35 @@ void device_shutdown(void)
> >                 spin_lock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> >         }
> >         spin_unlock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
> > +
> > +       /*
> > +        * Second pass spin for only devices, that have configured
> > +        * Asynchronous shutdown.
> > +        */
> > +       while (!list_empty(&async_shutdown_list)) {
> > +               dev = list_entry(async_shutdown_list.next, struct device,
> > +                               kobj.entry);
> > +               parent = get_device(dev->parent);
> > +               get_device(dev);
> > +               /*
> > +                * Make sure the device is off the  list
> > +                */
> > +               list_del_init(&dev->kobj.entry);
> > +               if (parent)
> > +                       device_lock(parent);
> > +               device_lock(dev);
> > +               if (dev->bus && dev->bus->async_shutdown_end) {
> > +                       if (initcall_debug)
> > +                               dev_info(dev,
> > +                               "async_shutdown_end called\n");
> > +                       dev->bus->async_shutdown_end(dev);
> > +               }
> > +               device_unlock(dev);
> > +               if (parent)
> > +                       device_unlock(parent);
> > +               put_device(dev);
> > +               put_device(parent);
> > +       }
> >  }
> >
> >  /*
> > diff --git a/include/linux/device/bus.h b/include/linux/device/bus.h
> > index a039ab809753..f582c9d21515 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/device/bus.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/device/bus.h
> > @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ struct fwnode_handle;
> >   *             will never get called until they do.
> >   * @remove:    Called when a device removed from this bus.
> >   * @shutdown:  Called at shut-down time to quiesce the device.
> > + * @async_shutdown_start:      Called at the shutdown-time to start
> > + *                             the shutdown process on the device.
> > + *                             This entry point will be called only
> > + *                             when the bus driver has indicated it would
> > + *                             like to participate in asynchronous shutdown
> > + *                             completion.
> > + * @async_shutdown_end:        Called at shutdown-time  to complete the shutdown
> > + *                     process of the device. This entry point will be called
> > + *                     only when the bus drive has indicated it would like to
> > + *                     participate in the asynchronous shutdown completion.
> >   *
> >   * @online:    Called to put the device back online (after offlining it).
> >   * @offline:   Called to put the device offline for hot-removal. May fail.
> > @@ -93,6 +103,8 @@ struct bus_type {
> >         void (*sync_state)(struct device *dev);
> >         void (*remove)(struct device *dev);
> >         void (*shutdown)(struct device *dev);
> > +       void (*async_shutdown_start)(struct device *dev);
> > +       void (*async_shutdown_end)(struct device *dev);
> >
> >         int (*online)(struct device *dev);
> >         int (*offline)(struct device *dev);
> > --
> > 2.36.0.rc0.470.gd361397f0d-goog
> >