Re: [PATCH 01/32] perf: Allow a PMU to have a parent

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On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:03:27 +0800
Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2023/4/4 21:41, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > Some PMUs have well defined parents such as PCI devices.
> > As the device_initialize() and device_add() are all within
> > pmu_dev_alloc() which is called from perf_pmu_register()
> > there is no opportunity to set the parent from within a driver.
> > 
> > Add a struct device *parent field to struct pmu and use that
> > to set the parent.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> > Previously posted in CPMU series hence the change log.
> > v3: No change
> > ---
> >  include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
> >  kernel/events/core.c       | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > index d5628a7b5eaa..b99db1eda72c 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> > @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ struct pmu {
> >  
> >  	struct module			*module;
> >  	struct device			*dev;
> > +	struct device			*parent;
> >  	const struct attribute_group	**attr_groups;
> >  	const struct attribute_group	**attr_update;
> >  	const char			*name;
> > diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> > index fb3e436bcd4a..a84c282221f2 100644
> > --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> > @@ -11367,6 +11367,7 @@ static int pmu_dev_alloc(struct pmu *pmu)
> >  
> >  	dev_set_drvdata(pmu->dev, pmu);
> >  	pmu->dev->bus = &pmu_bus;
> > +	pmu->dev->parent = pmu->parent;  
> 
> If there's no parent assigned, is it ok to add some check here? Then we can find it earlier
> maybe at develop stage.

In the long run I agree it would be good.  Short term there are more instances of
struct pmu that don't have parents than those that do (even after this series).
We need to figure out what to do about those before adding checks on it being
set.

Jonathan

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >  	pmu->dev->release = pmu_dev_release;
> >  
> >  	ret = dev_set_name(pmu->dev, "%s", pmu->name);
> >   




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