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[1/3] driver core & of: Mark of_nodes of added device as populated

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Pawel Moll Feb. 11, 2014, 4:53 p.m. UTC
In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually
massively populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed
at some level of initcalls, either by generic architecture
or by platform-specific code.

There are situations though where certain devices must be
created (and bound with drivers) before all the others.
This presents small challenge in DT-driven systems, as
devices explicitly created in early code would be created
again by of_platform_populate().

This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way,
adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node
structure when a device is being created in the core.
Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and
its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
---
 drivers/base/core.c       |  4 ++++
 drivers/of/device.c       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 drivers/of/platform.c     |  6 ++++--
 include/linux/of.h        |  6 ++++++
 include/linux/of_device.h | 11 +++++++++++
 5 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Christopher Covington Feb. 11, 2014, 5:32 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Pawel,

On 02/11/2014 11:53 AM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way,
> adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node
> structure when a device is being created in the core.
> Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and
> its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones.

Will there never be a case where it is useful for a parent node to be created
early, but not necessarily the child nodes? Might only skipping nodes
explicitly marked as populated be a more universal solution?

Regards,
Christopher
Rob Herring Feb. 13, 2014, 7:15 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> wrote:
> In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually
> massively populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed
> at some level of initcalls, either by generic architecture
> or by platform-specific code.
>
> There are situations though where certain devices must be
> created (and bound with drivers) before all the others.
> This presents small challenge in DT-driven systems, as
> devices explicitly created in early code would be created
> again by of_platform_populate().
>
> This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way,
> adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node
> structure when a device is being created in the core.
> Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and
> its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/core.c       |  4 ++++
>  drivers/of/device.c       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/of/platform.c     |  6 ++++--
>  include/linux/of.h        |  6 ++++++
>  include/linux/of_device.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Go read Grant's and my comments from your last posting.

Rob
Pawel Moll April 28, 2014, 5:37 p.m. UTC | #3
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 13:15 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> wrote:
> > In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually
> > massively populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed
> > at some level of initcalls, either by generic architecture
> > or by platform-specific code.
>
> Go read Grant's and my comments from your last posting.

Right, I can't explain why I missed those. Will do right now.

Pawel
Pawel Moll April 28, 2014, 5:40 p.m. UTC | #4
On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 12:32 -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
> 
> On 02/11/2014 11:53 AM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> > This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way,
> > adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node
> > structure when a device is being created in the core.
> > Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and
> > its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones.
> 
> Will there never be a case where it is useful for a parent node to be created
> early, but not necessarily the child nodes? Might only skipping nodes
> explicitly marked as populated be a more universal solution?

That's a good point. I've assumed one would either use
of_platform_device_create() on leaf nodes only (or
of_platform_populate() on subtree), and kept this approach in the
refreshed patch I'm about to post, but I'm happy to do what you
suggested.

Thanks!

Pawel
Pawel Moll April 28, 2014, 5:50 p.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 18:37 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 13:15 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> wrote:
> > > In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually
> > > massively populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed
> > > at some level of initcalls, either by generic architecture
> > > or by platform-specific code.
> >
> > Go read Grant's and my comments from your last posting.
> 
> Right, I can't explain why I missed those. Will do right now.

Actually I can't seem to find it in my mail archive, but I remember you
were saying that it shouldn't spoil into the driver base code. You're
probably right, so the updated patch will be limited to of_platform_*
API.

Grant was suggesting that I shouldn't be using the device model if I
have to initialize some early stuff. The thing is that my stuff is not
that early at all. The device model works for me perfectly, as long as I
can initialize 3 crucial devices in a correct order (and *then* do mass
population). And the init levels are perfect for this job. The only
thing I need is a small refinement in the way DT-based devices are
populated and this is exactly what I propose. Hope it makes more sense
now.

Cheers!

Pawel
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 2b56717..588c9a6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@  int device_add(struct device *dev)
 				class_intf->add_dev(dev, class_intf);
 		mutex_unlock(&dev->class->p->mutex);
 	}
+
+	of_device_populate(dev);
 done:
 	put_device(dev);
 	return error;
@@ -1190,6 +1192,8 @@  void device_del(struct device *dev)
 	struct device *parent = dev->parent;
 	struct class_interface *class_intf;
 
+	of_device_depopulate(dev);
+
 	/* Notify clients of device removal.  This call must come
 	 * before dpm_sysfs_remove().
 	 */
diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
index dafb973..3b31144 100644
--- a/drivers/of/device.c
+++ b/drivers/of/device.c
@@ -190,3 +190,19 @@  int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+void of_device_populate(struct device *dev)
+{
+	if ((!dev) || (!dev->of_node))
+		return;
+
+	of_node_set_flag(dev->of_node, OF_POPULATED);
+}
+
+void of_device_depopulate(struct device *dev)
+{
+	if ((!dev) || (!dev->of_node))
+		return;
+
+	of_node_clear_flag(dev->of_node, OF_POPULATED);
+}
diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
index 404d1da..ad43ee0 100644
--- a/drivers/of/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
@@ -204,7 +204,8 @@  static struct platform_device *of_platform_device_create_pdata(
 {
 	struct platform_device *dev;
 
-	if (!of_device_is_available(np))
+	if (!of_device_is_available(np) ||
+			of_node_check_flag(np, OF_POPULATED))
 		return NULL;
 
 	dev = of_device_alloc(np, bus_id, parent);
@@ -262,7 +263,8 @@  static struct amba_device *of_amba_device_create(struct device_node *node,
 
 	pr_debug("Creating amba device %s\n", node->full_name);
 
-	if (!of_device_is_available(node))
+	if (!of_device_is_available(node) ||
+			of_node_check_flag(node, OF_POPULATED))
 		return NULL;
 
 	dev = amba_device_alloc(NULL, 0, 0);
diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
index 70c64ba..caf7b8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/of.h
+++ b/include/linux/of.h
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@  static inline void of_node_set_flag(struct device_node *n, unsigned long flag)
 	set_bit(flag, &n->_flags);
 }
 
+static inline void of_node_clear_flag(struct device_node *n, unsigned long flag)
+{
+	clear_bit(flag, &n->_flags);
+}
+
 extern struct device_node *of_find_all_nodes(struct device_node *prev);
 
 /*
@@ -156,6 +161,7 @@  static inline unsigned long of_read_ulong(const __be32 *cell, int size)
 /* flag descriptions */
 #define OF_DYNAMIC	1 /* node and properties were allocated via kmalloc */
 #define OF_DETACHED	2 /* node has been detached from the device tree */
+#define OF_POPULATED	3 /* device already created for the node */
 
 #define OF_IS_DYNAMIC(x) test_bit(OF_DYNAMIC, &x->_flags)
 #define OF_MARK_DYNAMIC(x) set_bit(OF_DYNAMIC, &x->_flags)
diff --git a/include/linux/of_device.h b/include/linux/of_device.h
index 8d7dd67..513e598 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_device.h
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@  static inline void of_device_node_put(struct device *dev)
 	of_node_put(dev->of_node);
 }
 
+extern void of_device_populate(struct device *dev);
+extern void of_device_depopulate(struct device *dev);
+
 static inline struct device_node *of_cpu_device_node_get(int cpu)
 {
 	struct device *cpu_dev;
@@ -84,6 +87,14 @@  static inline const struct of_device_id *of_match_device(
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline void of_device_populate(struct device *dev)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void of_device_depopulate(struct device *dev)
+{
+}
+
 static inline struct device_node *of_cpu_device_node_get(int cpu)
 {
 	return NULL;