On Wed, 07 May 2014 15:37:17 +0100, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 10:43 +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > > > That doesn't work in the case where drivers use of_platform_populate(). > > > MFD devices in particular make use of it. If the driver does not get > > > cleared on removal of the devices, then all MFD users will be broken on > > > driver unbind/rebind. * > > > > > > We really need to have the inverse of of_platform_populate which will > > > remove all child and child's child devices and clear all flags and such. > > > Right now moany drivers are open-coding the removal. > > Agreed, but, unless I'm missing some fundamental issue, I believe we can > solve the flag clearing problem in a generic way: > > --8<----------- > diff --git a/drivers/amba/bus.c b/drivers/amba/bus.c > index 3cf61a1..0f489fb 100644 > --- a/drivers/amba/bus.c > +++ b/drivers/amba/bus.c > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ > #include <linux/pm_runtime.h> > #include <linux/amba/bus.h> > #include <linux/sizes.h> > +#include <linux/of_device.h> > > #include <asm/irq.h> > > @@ -268,6 +269,7 @@ static void amba_device_release(struct device *dev) > { > struct amba_device *d = to_amba_device(dev); > > + of_device_node_put(dev); > if (d->res.parent) > release_resource(&d->res); > kfree(d); > diff --git a/include/linux/of_device.h b/include/linux/of_device.h > index ef37021..fd14d46 100644 > --- a/include/linux/of_device.h > +++ b/include/linux/of_device.h > @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ extern int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env > > static inline void of_device_node_put(struct device *dev) > { > + if (dev->of_node) > + of_node_clear_flag(dev->of_node, OF_POPULATED); > of_node_put(dev->of_node); > } > --8<----------- > > This will work even if one manually unregisters a DT-originating device, > because of_device_node_put() would be called in both amba and platform > device (kobj) release path. Doing it that way will also catch platform_devices that were created apart from of_platform_populate() and manually attached to an of_node, which is done some times. It will also break whenever multiple devices reference the same node if they call of_device_node_put(). For example, a platform device providing an i2c bus will have a child device that represents the i2c bus, and that i2c device will point to the same node. The flag clear really does need to be kept in the platform_device_unpopulate path because it is only to be used internally by of_platform_{populate,depopulate} > > By the way, the fact that today amba_device_release() doesn't do > of_device_node_put() seems like a bug to me? (node's reference counter > won't be decremented) Yes, that is a bug. I want to get some unittests added to the DT code to verify that reference counts are being tracked correctly. Right now it is an utter mess. > > > The function shouldn't be too difficult. I would expect it to look > > something like this. You'll need to check the details. > > 8<----------- > diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c > index dd4328c..b6b5a2b 100644 > --- a/drivers/of/platform.c > +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c > @@ -493,4 +493,49 @@ int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root, > return rc; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_platform_populate); > + > +static int of_platform_device_destroy(struct device *dev, void *data) > +{ > + int *parents_children_left = data; > + int my_children_left = 0; > + > + /* Do not touch devices not populated from the device tree */ > + if (!dev->of_node || !of_node_check_flag(dev->of_node, OF_POPULATED)) { > + *parents_children_left++; > + return 0; > + } > + > + device_for_each_child(dev, &my_children_left, > + of_platform_device_destroy); > + if (my_children_left) { > + *parents_children_left++; > + return 0; > + } > + > + if (dev->bus == &platform_bus_type) > + platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(dev)); > + else if (dev->bus == &amba_bustype) > + amba_device_unregister(to_amba_device(dev)); > + > + return 0; > +} This new code looks good to me. I haven't done any testing though. Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> > + > +/** > + * of_platform_depopulate() - Remove devices populated from device tree > + * @parent: device which childred will be removed > + * > + * Complementary to of_platform_populate(), this function removes children > + * of the given device (and, recurrently, their children) that have been > + * created from their respective device tree nodes (and only those, > + * leaving others - eg. manually created - unharmed). */ > + */ > +int of_platform_depopulate(struct device *parent) > +{ > + int children_left = 0; > + > + device_for_each_child(dev, &children_left, of_platform_device_destroy); > + > + return children_left ? -EBUSY : 0; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_platform_depopulate); > #endif /* CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS */ > diff --git a/include/linux/of_platform.h b/include/linux/of_platform.h > index 05cb4a9..ef4f4ad 100644 > --- a/include/linux/of_platform.h > +++ b/include/linux/of_platform.h > @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ extern int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root, > const struct of_device_id *matches, > const struct of_dev_auxdata *lookup, > struct device *parent); > +static inline int of_platform_depopulate(struct device *parent); > #else > static inline int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root, > const struct of_device_id *matches, > @@ -80,6 +81,10 @@ static inline int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root, > { > return -ENODEV; > } > +static inline int of_platform_depopulate(struct device *parent) > +{ > + return -ENODEV; > +} > #endif > > #endif /* _LINUX_OF_PLATFORM_H */ > 8<----------- > > > static int __of_platform_unpopulate_device(struct device *dev, void *c) > > { > > if (!dev->of_node || !of_node_get_flag(dev->of_node, OF_POPULATED) > > return 0; > > > > // recursively remove the children too --- I'd like to find a way > > to do this non-recursively > > device_for_each_child(dev, NULL, __of_platform_unpopulate_device); > > As of_platform_populate() is recursive itself, I don't see much problem > with this Right, that was just a side comment. I like to avoid recursion as much as possible in kernel code, but I'm certainly not going to NAK on that basis. > > > // Need to check if the device should be explicitly unbound from > > it's driver before removing it. However, I think the driver core takes > > care of this for us. > > Yep, removing either a driver or a device unbinds all existing pairs. > > > // Remove based on the bus type > > switch (dev->bus) { > > case &platform_bus_type: > > To my surprise gcc said "error: pointers are not permitted as case > values". One learns every day ;-) :-) Good to know. > > > platform_device_remove(to_platform_device(dev)); > > break; > > case &amba_bus_type: > > amba_device_remove(to_platform_device(dev)); > > break; > > } > > > > // Should check here if there are any other children to the > > device. It is probably bad to remove a device that still has children. > > Need to check what the driver core will do. > > } > > The reference count will be still be greater than 0, so the parent won't > be harmed. Nevertheless it's better to consciously handle such case. At > least I tried. > > Pawel > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html