From: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
To: lukas@wunner.de
Cc: rafael@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, kishon@ti.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] drivers/base: bugfix for supplier<-consumer ordering in device_kset
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 21:52:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgQCTsouCPy7GWGFzWbLuSUxnE2rWe5EGqsE5ivT+=ATw2MJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180706083603.GA9063@wunner.de>
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:36 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrote:
>
> [cc += Kishon Vijay Abraham]
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:18:28AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > OK, so calling devices_kset_move_last() from really_probe() clearly is
> > a mistake.
> >
> > I'm not really sure what the intention of it was as the changelog of
> > commit 52cdbdd49853d doesn't really explain that (why would it be
> > insufficient without that change?)
>
> It seems 52cdbdd49853d fixed an issue with boards which have an MMC
> whose reset pin needs to be driven high on shutdown, lest the MMC
> won't be found on the next boot.
>
> The boards' devicetrees use a kludge wherein the reset pin is modelled
> as a regulator. The regulator is enabled when the MMC probes and
> disabled on driver unbind and shutdown. As a result, the pin is driven
> low on shutdown and the MMC is not found on the next boot.
>
> To fix this, another kludge was invented wherein the GPIO expander
> driving the reset pin unconditionally drives all its pins high on
> shutdown, see pcf857x_shutdown() in drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c
> (commit adc284755055, "gpio: pcf857x: restore the initial line state
> of all pcf lines").
>
> For this kludge to work, the GPIO expander's ->shutdown hook needs to
> be executed after the MMC expander's ->shutdown hook.
>
> Commit 52cdbdd49853d achieved that by reordering devices_kset according
> to the probe order. Apparently the MMC probes after the GPIO expander,
> possibly because it returns -EPROBE_DEFER if the vmmc regulator isn't
> available yet, see mmc_regulator_get_supply().
>
> Note, I'm just piecing the information together from git history,
> I'm not responsible for these kludges. (I'm innocent!)
>
Thanks for your exploration, very clearly. I had tried, but failed
since these commits are contributed with different authors. I am not
familiar with ARM and dts, so had thought
really_probe()->devices_kset_move_last() is used to address a very
popular "supplier<-consumer" order issue in smart phone, based on the
configuration hard-coded in "bios(or counterpart in ARM).
> @Pingfan Liu, if you just remove the call to devices_kset_move_last()
> from really_probe(), does the issue go away?
>
Yes, it goes away.
> If so, it might be best to remove that call and model the dependency
> with a call to device_link_add() in mmc_regulator_get_supply().
> Another idea would be to automatically add a device_link in the
> driver core if -EPROBE_DEFER is returned.
>
Maybe the first one is better, as it is already used by other drivers.
Thanks,
Pingfan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-06 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 6:50 [PATCHv3 0/4] drivers/base: bugfix for supplier<-consumer ordering in device_kset Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 6:50 ` [PATCHv3 1/4] drivers/base: fold the routine of device's shutdown into a func Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 6:50 ` [PATCHv3 2/4] drivers/base: utilize device tree info to shutdown devices Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 7:51 ` Lukas Wunner
2018-07-03 9:26 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-04 3:10 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 10:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-07-03 17:03 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-07-04 17:04 ` kbuild test robot
2018-07-05 10:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-06 3:02 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-06 9:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-07 4:02 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-06 10:00 ` [PATCH] driver core: Drop devices_kset_move_last() call from really_probe() Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-09 13:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2018-07-09 21:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-09 22:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2018-07-10 6:19 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2018-07-10 10:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 10:29 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 6:33 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-10 11:35 ` [PATCH] driver core: Partially revert "driver core: correct device's shutdown order" Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 12:22 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2018-07-10 12:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 12:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 12:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-10 15:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-10 15:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-10 19:13 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2018-07-03 6:50 ` [PATCHv3 3/4] drivers/base: clean up the usage of devices_kset_move_last() Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 14:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-04 4:40 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-04 10:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-05 2:32 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 6:50 ` [PATCHv3 4/4] Revert "driver core: correct device's shutdown order" Pingfan Liu
2018-07-03 14:35 ` [PATCHv3 0/4] drivers/base: bugfix for supplier<-consumer ordering in device_kset Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-04 2:47 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-04 10:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-05 2:44 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-05 9:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-06 8:36 ` Lukas Wunner
2018-07-06 8:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-06 13:55 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-07 4:24 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-08 8:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-09 6:48 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-09 7:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-09 8:40 ` Pingfan Liu
2018-07-09 8:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-07-06 10:02 ` Kishon Vijay Abraham I
2018-07-06 13:52 ` Pingfan Liu [this message]
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