Qestion: of property has dead-lock to call .probe()

[Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Saravana, Rob
Cc Mark/ALSA-ML, Geert, Laurent

I got dead-lock issue on drivers/of/property.c to call .probe() 
I'm now using v6.11-rc5.

I'm using 3 devices, and these are connected via OF-Graph.
These are connected like this so far. Let's call it as [Style-A]

[Style-A]
	+---+  +---+
	|(A)+--+   |
	+-+-+  |   |
	  |    |(B)|
	+-+-+  |   |
	|(C)+--+   |
	+---+  +---+

These are using port/endpoint to connect. It works well for now,
no issue I have so far.

(B) is connector for (A)-(C) data, thus, (A) and (C) should
be probed first, and (B) needs probe later
(For ALSA member, this (B) is Audio Graph Card2).

Here, (A)-(C) can connect directly for some data.
Now it is using both data connection (= (A)-(B)-(C) and (A)-(C))

Now, I want to disconnect (A)-(C) connection, like below
Let's call it as [Style-B]

[Style-B]
	+---+  +---+
	|(A)+--+   |
	+---+  |   |
	       |(B)|
	+---+  |   |
	|(C)+--+   |
	+---+  +---+

Then, it seems dead-lock happen.

In my debug, it seems...
	- (B) is handled as supplier for (A).
	- (B) probe() is called, but it needs (A) info which is not yet
	  probed. So it returns -EPROBE_DEFER.
	- Because (B) is not probed, (A) probe() never called

In [Style-A], it seems __fwnode_link_cycle() is called for (A)-(B)
connection, so the dead-lock will be solved.
But it is not called for [Style-B]. Because of that (B) is always handled
as supplier for (A).

If I used below patch, and use "non-supplier" property on (B), this
dead-lock issue was solved. But I know this is not a good solution.

I think it is very normal connection, not super special.
How can I solve this issue on correct way ? Or how can I indicate you
my issue more detail ?
I can add debug patch and test it if you can indicate it to me.

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diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
index def152c61049..2f08210c2ea4 100644
--- a/drivers/of/property.c
+++ b/drivers/of/property.c
@@ -1502,11 +1502,22 @@ static struct device_node *parse_remote_endpoint(struct device_node *np,
 						 const char *prop_name,
 						 int index)
 {
+	struct device_node *node;
+
 	/* Return NULL for index > 0 to signify end of remote-endpoints. */
 	if (index > 0 || strcmp(prop_name, "remote-endpoint"))
 		return NULL;
 
-	return of_graph_get_remote_port_parent(np);
+	node = of_graph_get_remote_port_parent(np);
+
+	/*
+	 * There is clearly non-supplier node which is connected via "remote-endpoint".
+	 * Ignore it, otherwise dead-lock might occur
+	 */
+	if (of_property_present(node, "non-supplier"))
+		return NULL;
+
+	return node;
 }
-----------------------------------------------


Thank you for your help !!

Best regards
---
Kuninori Morimoto