[PATCH v2] gpiolib: Bind gpio_device to a driver to enable fw_devlink=on by default

[Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There are multiple instances of GPIO devictree nodes of the form:

foo {
	compatible = "acme,foo";
	...

	gpio0: gpio0@xxxxxxxx {
		compatible = "acme,bar";
		...
		gpio-controller;
	};

	gpio1: gpio1@xxxxxxxx {
		compatible = "acme,bar";
		...
		gpio-controller;
	};

	...
}

bazz {
	my-gpios = <&gpio0 ...>;
}

Case 1: The driver for "foo" populates struct device for these gpio*
nodes and then probes them using a driver that binds with "acme,bar".
This lines up with how DT nodes with the "compatible" property are
generally converted to struct devices and then registered with driver
core to probe them. This also allows the gpio* devices to hook into all
the driver core capabilities like runtime PM, probe deferral,
suspend/resume ordering, device links, etc.

Case 2: The driver for "foo" doesn't populate its child device nodes
with "compatible" property and instead just loops through its child
nodes and directly registers the GPIOs with gpiolib without ever
populating a struct device or binding a driver to it.

Drivers that follow the case 2 cause problems with fw_devlink=on.  This
is because fw_devlink will prevent bazz from probing until there's a
struct device that has gpio0 as its fwnode (because bazz lists gpio0 as
a GPIO supplier). Once the struct device is available, fw_devlink will
create a device link between with gpio0 as the supplier and bazz as the
consumer. After this point, the device link will prevent bazz from
probing until its supplier (the gpio0 device) has bound to a driver.
Once the supplier is bound to a driver, the probe of bazz is triggered
automatically.

Finding and refactoring all the instances of drivers that follow case 2
will cause a lot of code churn and it not something that can be done in
one shot. Examples of such instances are [1] [2].

This patch works around this problem and avoids all the code churn by
simply creating a stub driver to bind to the gpio_device. Since the
gpio_device already points to the GPIO device tree node, this allows all
the consumers to continue probing when the driver follows case 2.

If/when all the old drivers are refactored, we can revert this patch.

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201014191235.7f71fcb4@xhacker.debian/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e28e1f38d87c12a3c714a6573beba6e1@xxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kever Yang <kever.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: e590474768f1 ("driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default")
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Fixed up compilation errors that were introduced accidentally
- Fixed a missing put_device()

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index b02cc2abd3b6..12c579a953b0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -574,6 +574,9 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
 	unsigned	i;
 	int		base = gc->base;
 	struct gpio_device *gdev;
+	struct device_node *of_node;
+	struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
+	struct device *fwnode_dev;
 
 	/*
 	 * First: allocate and populate the internal stat container, and
@@ -596,6 +599,22 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
 		gdev->dev.of_node = gc->of_node;
 	else
 		gc->of_node = gdev->dev.of_node;
+
+	of_node = gdev->dev.of_node;
+	fwnode = of_fwnode_handle(of_node);
+	fwnode_dev = get_dev_from_fwnode(fwnode);
+	/*
+	 * If your driver hits this warning, it's because you are directly
+	 * parsing a device tree node with "compatible" property and
+	 * initializing it instead of using the standard DT + device driver
+	 * model of creating a struct device and then initializing it in the
+	 * probe function. Please refactor your driver.
+	 */
+	if (!fwnode_dev && of_find_property(of_node, "compatible", NULL)) {
+		chip_warn(gc, "Create a real device for %pOF\n", of_node);
+		gdev->dev.fwnode = fwnode;
+	}
+	put_device(fwnode_dev);
 #endif
 
 	gdev->id = ida_alloc(&gpio_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -4202,6 +4221,17 @@ void gpiod_put_array(struct gpio_descs *descs)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gpiod_put_array);
 
+static int gpio_drv_probe(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct device_driver gpio_drv = {
+	.name = "gpio_drv",
+	.bus = &gpio_bus_type,
+	.probe = gpio_drv_probe,
+};
+
 static int __init gpiolib_dev_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -4213,9 +4243,16 @@ static int __init gpiolib_dev_init(void)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	if (driver_register(&gpio_drv) < 0) {
+		pr_err("gpiolib: could not register GPIO stub driver\n");
+		bus_unregister(&gpio_bus_type);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
 	ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&gpio_devt, 0, GPIO_DEV_MAX, GPIOCHIP_NAME);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		pr_err("gpiolib: failed to allocate char dev region\n");
+		driver_unregister(&gpio_drv);
 		bus_unregister(&gpio_bus_type);
 		return ret;
 	}
-- 
2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog