Currently, the probe deferral timeout does two things:
1) Call to fw_devlink_drivers_done() to relax the device dependencies and
allow drivers to be probed if these dependencies are optional.
2) Disable the probe deferral mechanism so that drivers will fail to probe
if the required dependencies are not present, instead of adding them to
the deferred probe pending list.
But there is no need to couple these two, for example the probe deferral
can be used even when the device links are disable (i.e: fw_devlink=off).
So let's add a separate fw_devlink.timeout command line parameter to allow
relaxing the device links and prevent drivers to wait for these to probe.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
(no changes since v1)
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++
drivers/base/dd.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index a465d5242774..38138a44d5ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1581,6 +1581,13 @@
dependencies. This only applies for fw_devlink=on|rpm.
Format: <bool>
+ fw_devlink.timeout=
+ [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
+ drivers to give up waiting on dependencies and to probe
+ these are optional. A timeout of 0 will timeout at the
+ end of initcalls. If the time out hasn't expired, it'll
+ be restarted by each successful driver registration.
+
gamecon.map[2|3]=
[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 1e8f1afeac98..ea448df94d24 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ static int driver_deferred_probe_timeout = 10;
#else
static int driver_deferred_probe_timeout;
#endif
+static int fw_devlink_timeout = -1;
static int __init deferred_probe_timeout_setup(char *str)
{
@@ -272,6 +273,16 @@ static int __init deferred_probe_timeout_setup(char *str)
}
__setup("deferred_probe_timeout=", deferred_probe_timeout_setup);
+static int __init fw_devlink_timeout_setup(char *str)
+{
+ int timeout;
+
+ if (!kstrtoint(str, 10, &timeout))
+ fw_devlink_timeout = timeout;
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("fw_devlink.timeout=", fw_devlink_timeout_setup);
+
/**
* driver_deferred_probe_check_state() - Check deferred probe state
* @dev: device to check
@@ -318,6 +329,15 @@ static void deferred_probe_timeout_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
}
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(deferred_probe_timeout_work, deferred_probe_timeout_work_func);
+static void fw_devlink_timeout_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ fw_devlink_drivers_done();
+
+ driver_deferred_probe_trigger();
+ flush_work(&deferred_probe_work);
+}
+static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(fw_devlink_timeout_work, fw_devlink_timeout_work_func);
+
void deferred_probe_extend_timeout(void)
{
/*
@@ -330,6 +350,13 @@ void deferred_probe_extend_timeout(void)
pr_debug("Extended deferred probe timeout by %d secs\n",
driver_deferred_probe_timeout);
}
+
+ if (cancel_delayed_work(&fw_devlink_timeout_work)) {
+ schedule_delayed_work(&fw_devlink_timeout_work,
+ fw_devlink_timeout * HZ);
+ pr_debug("Extended fw_devlink timeout by %d secs\n",
+ fw_devlink_timeout);
+ }
}
/**
@@ -352,9 +379,12 @@ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void)
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES)) {
driver_deferred_probe_timeout = 0;
- fw_devlink_drivers_done();
+ fw_devlink_timeout = 0;
}
+ if (!fw_devlink_timeout)
+ fw_devlink_drivers_done();
+
/*
* Trigger deferred probe again, this time we won't defer anything
* that is optional
@@ -366,6 +396,12 @@ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void)
schedule_delayed_work(&deferred_probe_timeout_work,
driver_deferred_probe_timeout * HZ);
}
+
+ if (fw_devlink_timeout > 0) {
+ schedule_delayed_work(&fw_devlink_timeout_work,
+ fw_devlink_timeout * HZ);
+ }
+
return 0;
}
late_initcall(deferred_probe_initcall);
--
2.38.1
