From a3e1d1a7f5fcccaf1d252278425fea9a4a553100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Saravana Kannan Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 14:11:22 -0700 Subject: of: property: Add functional dependency link from DT bindings Add device links after the devices are created (but before they are probed) by looking at common DT bindings like clocks and interconnects. Automatically adding device links for functional dependencies at the framework level provides the following benefits: - Optimizes device probe order and avoids the useless work of attempting probes of devices that will not probe successfully (because their suppliers aren't present or haven't probed yet). For example, in a commonly available mobile SoC, registering just one consumer device's driver at an initcall level earlier than the supplier device's driver causes 11 failed probe attempts before the consumer device probes successfully. This was with a kernel with all the drivers statically compiled in. This problem gets a lot worse if all the drivers are loaded as modules without direct symbol dependencies. - Supplier devices like clock providers, interconnect providers, etc need to keep the resources they provide active and at a particular state(s) during boot up even if their current set of consumers don't request the resource to be active. This is because the rest of the consumers might not have probed yet and turning off the resource before all the consumers have probed could lead to a hang or undesired user experience. Some frameworks (Eg: regulator) handle this today by turning off "unused" resources at late_initcall_sync and hoping all the devices have probed by then. This is not a valid assumption for systems with loadable modules. Other frameworks (Eg: clock) just don't handle this due to the lack of a clear signal for when they can turn off resources. This leads to downstream hacks to handle cases like this that can easily be solved in the upstream kernel. By linking devices before they are probed, we give suppliers a clear count of the number of dependent consumers. Once all of the consumers are active, the suppliers can turn off the unused resources without making assumptions about the number of consumers. By default we just add device-links to track "driver presence" (probe succeeded) of the supplier device. If any other functionality provided by device-links are needed, it is left to the consumer/supplier devices to change the link when they probe. kbuild test robot reported clang error about missing const Reported-by: kbuild test robot Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190904211126.47518-4-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index d05d531b4ec9..6d421694d98e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ parameter is applicable:: NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NUMA NUMA support is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. + OF Devicetree is enabled. OSS OSS sound support is enabled. PV_OPS A paravirtualized kernel is enabled. PARIDE The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index c7ac2f3ac99f..02df1a24f0c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3194,6 +3194,12 @@ This can be set from sysctl after boot. See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details. + of_devlink [OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and + supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the + consumer/supplier relationships. A consumer device + will not be probed until all the supplier devices have + probed successfully. + ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more info. -- cgit