Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: layerscape: convert to builtin_platform_driver()

[Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:49 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> wrote:
>
> Am 2021-01-21 12:01, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> > Hi Saravana,
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:05 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 3:53 PM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Am 2021-01-20 20:47, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> >> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:28 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> [RESEND, fat-fingered the buttons of my mail client and converted
> >> > >> all CCs to BCCs :(]
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> >> > >> >> wrote:
> >> > >> >> >
> >> > >> >> > fw_devlink will defer the probe until all suppliers are ready. We can't
> >> > >> >> > use builtin_platform_driver_probe() because it doesn't retry after probe
> >> > >> >> > deferral. Convert it to builtin_platform_driver().
> >> > >> >>
> >> > >> >> If builtin_platform_driver_probe() doesn't work with fw_devlink, then
> >> > >> >> shouldn't it be fixed or removed?
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > I was actually thinking about this too. The problem with fixing
> >> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe() to behave like
> >> > >> > builtin_platform_driver() is that these probe functions could be
> >> > >> > marked with __init. But there are also only 20 instances of
> >> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe() in the kernel:
> >> > >> > $ git grep ^builtin_platform_driver_probe | wc -l
> >> > >> > 20
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > So it might be easier to just fix them to not use
> >> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe().
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Michael,
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Any chance you'd be willing to help me by converting all these to
> >> > >> > builtin_platform_driver() and delete builtin_platform_driver_probe()?
> >> > >>
> >> > >> If it just moving the probe function to the _driver struct and
> >> > >> remove the __init annotations. I could look into that.
> >> > >
> >> > > Yup. That's pretty much it AFAICT.
> >> > >
> >> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() also makes sure the driver doesn't ask
> >> > > for async probe, etc. But I doubt anyone is actually setting async
> >> > > flags and still using builtin_platform_driver_probe().
> >> >
> >> > Hasn't module_platform_driver_probe() the same problem? And there
> >> > are ~80 drivers which uses that.
> >>
> >> Yeah. The biggest problem with all of these is the __init markers.
> >> Maybe some familiar with coccinelle can help?
> >
> > And dropping them will increase memory usage.
>
> Although I do have the changes for the builtin_platform_driver_probe()
> ready, I don't think it makes much sense to send these unless we agree
> on the increased memory footprint. While there are just a few
> builtin_platform_driver_probe() and memory increase _might_ be
> negligible, there are many more module_platform_driver_probe().

While it's good to drop code that'll not be used past kernel init, the
module_platform_driver_probe() is going even more extreme. It doesn't
even allow deferred probe (well before kernel init is done). I don't
think that behavior is right and that's why we should delete it. Also,
I doubt if any of these probe functions even take up 4KB of memory.

-Saravana