[PATCH v2 00/10] Make PCI's devres API more consistent

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Changes in v2:
  - Make commit head lines congruent with PCI's style (Bjorn)
  - Add missing error checks for devm_add_action(). (Andy)
  - Repair the "Returns: " marks for docu generation (Andy)
  - Initialize the addr_devres struct with memset(). (Andy)
  - Make pcim_intx() a PCI-internal function so that new drivers won't
    be encouraged to use the outdated pci_intx() mechanism.
    (Andy / Philipp)
  - Fix grammar and spelling (Bjorn)
  - Be more precise on why pcim_iomap_table() is problematic (Bjorn)
  - Provide the actual structs' and functions' names in the commit
    messages (Bjorn)
  - Remove redundant variable initializers (Andy)
  - Regroup PM bitfield members in struct pci_dev (Andy)
  - Consistently use the term "PCI devres API"; also in Patch #10 (Bjorn)


¡Hola!

PCI's devres API suffers several weaknesses:

1. There are functions prefixed with pcim_. Those are always managed
   counterparts to never-managed functions prefixed with pci_ – or so one
   would like to think. There are some apparently unmanaged functions
   (all region-request / release functions, and pci_intx()) which
   suddenly become managed once the user has initialized the device with
   pcim_enable_device() instead of pci_enable_device(). This "sometimes
   yes, sometimes no" nature of those functions is confusing and
   therefore bug-provoking. In fact, it has already caused a bug in DRM.
   The last patch in this series fixes that bug.
2. iomappings: Instead of giving each mapping its own callback, the
   existing API uses a statically allocated struct tracking one mapping
   per bar. This is not extensible. Especially, you can't create
   _ranged_ managed mappings that way, which many drivers want.
3. Managed request functions only exist as "plural versions" with a
   bit-mask as a parameter. That's quite over-engineered considering
   that each user only ever mapps one, maybe two bars.

This series:
- add a set of new "singular" devres functions that use devres the way
  its intended, with one callback per resource.
- deprecates the existing iomap-table mechanism.
- deprecates the hybrid nature of pci_ functions.
- preserves backwards compatibility so that drivers using the existing
  API won't notice any changes.
- adds documentation, especially some warning users about the
  complicated nature of PCI's devres.


Note that this series is based on my "unify pci_iounmap"-series from a
few weeks ago. [1]

I tested this on a x86 VM with a simple pci test-device with two
regions. Operates and reserves resources as intended on my system.
Kasan and kmemleak didn't find any problems.

I believe this series cleans the API up as much as possible without
having to port all existing drivers to the new API. Especially, I think
that this implementation is easy to extend if the need for new managed
functions arises :)

Greetings,
P.

Philipp Stanner (10):
  PCI: add new set of devres functions
  PCI: deprecate iomap-table functions
  PCI: warn users about complicated devres nature
  PCI: make devres region requests consistent
  PCI: move dev-enabled status bit to struct pci_dev
  PCI: move pinned status bit to struct pci_dev
  PCI: give pcim_set_mwi() its own devres callback
  PCI: give pci(m)_intx its own devres callback
  PCI: remove legacy pcim_release()
  drm/vboxvideo: fix mapping leaks

 Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst  |    3 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c |   24 +-
 drivers/pci/devres.c                  | 1015 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/pci/iomap.c                   |   18 +
 drivers/pci/pci.c                     |  123 ++-
 drivers/pci/pci.h                     |   25 +-
 include/linux/pci.h                   |   18 +-
 7 files changed, 1011 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-)

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2.43.0




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