Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / platform: Initialize ACPI handles of platform devices in advance

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Monday, November 19, 2012 06:32:06 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 19, 2012 08:23:34 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:13:59PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > The current platform device creation and registration code in
> > > acpi_create_platform_device() is quite convoluted.  This function
> > > takes an ACPI device node as an argument and eventually calls
> > > platform_device_register_resndata() to create and register a
> > > platform device object on the basis of the information contained
> > > in that code.  However, it doesn't associate the new platform
> > > device with the ACPI node directly, but instead it relies on
> > > acpi_platform_notify(), called from within device_add(), to find
> > > that ACPI node again with the help of acpi_platform_find_device()
> > > and acpi_platform_match() and then attach the new platform device
> > > to it.  This causes an additional ACPI namespace walk to happen and
> > > is clearly suboptimal.
> > > 
> > > Use the observation that it is now possible to initialize the ACPI
> > > handle of a device before calling device_add() for it to make this
> > > code more straightforward.  Namely, add a new field to struct
> > > platform_device_info allowing us to pass the ACPI handle of interest
> > > to platform_device_register_full(), which will then use it to
> > > initialize the new device's ACPI handle before registering it.
> > > This will cause acpi_platform_notify() to use the ACPI handle from
> > > the device structure directly instead of using the .find_device()
> > > routine provided by the device's bus type.  In consequence,
> > > acpi_platform_bus, acpi_platform_find_device(), and
> > > acpi_platform_match() are not necessary any more, so remove them.
> > 
> > Why can't you use the platform_data * that is already in struct device
> > for this, instead of adding an acpi-specific field to the
> > platform_device structure?
> 
> Hmm, I kind of don't understand the question. :-)
> 
> Yes, we have acpi_handle in struct device (it actually is being added by a
> patch you've acked) and we use it.  The whole point here is to streamline
> of the initalization of that field.
> 
> > If not that, surely there is another field in struct device that you
> > could use that is free for this type of device?
> 
> Yes, there is one and as I said above. :-)
> 
> I'd be happy to use the struct device's field directly, but
> platform_device_register_full() allocates memory for the struct device in
> question, so that field actually doesn't exist yet when it is called.
> 
> > >  struct platform_device_info {
> > >  		struct device *parent;
> > > +		void *acpi_handle;
> > 
> > Oh, and if I do accept this, I want a "real" structure pointer here
> > please, not a void * "handle".  That way is a slippery slope to the
> > Windows kernel programming style :)
> 
> This is (void *), because the field being initialized is (void *).  That field,
> in turn, is (void *), because ACPICA defines it that way.  I thought about
> wrapping that in some more meaningless data type, but I did't find a way

s/meaningless/meaningful/

(/me hides)


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.