Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading

[Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>]

Hi,

On 4/4/19 12:04 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:39:38PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>> Lets add the MODULE_TABLE and platform id_table entries so that
>> the SPE driver can attach to the ACPI platform device created by
>> the core pmu code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 11 +++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
>> index 7cb766dafe85..ffa2c76c08bb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
>> @@ -1176,7 +1176,13 @@ static const struct of_device_id arm_spe_pmu_of_match[] = {
>>   };
>>   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, arm_spe_pmu_of_match);
>>   
>> -static int arm_spe_pmu_device_dt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> +static const struct platform_device_id arm_spe_match[] = {
>> +	{ "arm,spe-v1", 0},
> 
> It would be nice if we could avoid duplicating this string from the ACPI
> parsing code.

Ok sure, I just need to find a good common place for it.

> 
>> +	{ }
>> +};
>> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, arm_spe_match);
>> +
>> +static int arm_spe_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>   {
>>   	int ret;
>>   	struct arm_spe_pmu *spe_pmu;
>> @@ -1236,11 +1242,12 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_device_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>   }
>>   
>>   static struct platform_driver arm_spe_pmu_driver = {
>> +	.id_table = arm_spe_match,
>>   	.driver	= {
>>   		.name		= DRVNAME,
>>   		.of_match_table	= of_match_ptr(arm_spe_pmu_of_match),
> 
> Hmm, so some other drivers don't hook .id_table like you do, but instead
> hook .acpi_match_table in the driver structure. Is that not better?

This isn't actually an ACPI device, (aka not defined in the namespace), 
so its missing much of the ACPI functionality. I think that also means 
its needs to be declared this way.


> 
> Will
>