Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] fw_devlink improvements

[Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:01 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22-08-09 23:00:29, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > This patch series improves fw_devlink in the following ways:
> >
> > 1. It no longer cares about a fwnode having a "compatible" property. It
> >    figures this our more dynamically. The only expectation is that
> >    fwnode that are converted to devices actually get probed by a driver
> >    for the dependencies to be enforced correctly.
> >
> > 2. Finer grained dependency tracking. fw_devlink will now create device
> >    links from the consumer to the actual resource's device (if it has one,
> >    Eg: gpio_device) instead of the parent supplier device. This improves
> >    things like async suspend/resume ordering, potentially remove the need
> >    for frameworks to create device links, more parallelized async probing,
> >    and better sync_state() tracking.
> >
> > 3. Handle hardware/software quirks where a child firmware node gets
> >    populated as a device before its parent firmware node AND actually
> >    supplies a non-optional resource to the parent firmware node's
> >    device.
> >
> > 4. Way more robust at cycle handling (see patch for the insane cases).
> >
> > 5. Stops depending on OF_POPULATED to figure out some corner cases.
> >
> > 6. Simplifies the work that needs to be done by the firmware specific
> >    code.
> >
> > This took way too long to get done due to typo bugs I had in my rewrite or
> > corner cases I had to find and handle. But it's fairly well tested at this
> > point and I expect this to work properly.
> >
> > Abel & Doug,
> >
> > This should fix your cyclic dependency issues with your display. Can you
> > give it a shot please?
>
> Tested the specific case we discussed about here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGETcx8F0wP+RA0KpjOJeZfc=DVG-MbM_=SkRHD4UhD2ReL7Kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/raw
>
> Thanks for fixing this.
>
> Tested-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-Saravana

>
> >
> > Alexander,
> >
> > This should fix your issue where the power domain device not having a
> > compatible property. Can you give it a shot please?
> >
> > Tony,
> >
> > This should handle the odd case of the child being the supplier of the
> > parent. Can you please give this a shot? I want to make sure the cycle
> > detection code handles this properly and treats it like it's NOT a cycle.
> >
> > Geert,
> >
> > Can you test the renesas stuff I changed please? They should continue
> > working like before. Any other sanity test on other hardware would be
> > great too.
> >
> > Sudeep,
> >
> > I don't think there are any unfixed issues you had reported in my other
> > patches that this series might fix, but it'll be nice if you could give
> > this a sanity test.
> >
> > Guenter,
> >
> > I don't think this will fix the issue you reported in the amba patch, but
> > it's worth a shot because it improves a bunch of corner case handling. So
> > it might be better at handling whatever corner cases you might have in the
> > qemu platforms.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Saravana
> >
> > Cc: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Saravana Kannan (9):
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Don't purge child fwnode's consumer links
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Improve check for fwnode with no
> >     device/driver
> >   soc: renesas: Move away from using OF_POPULATED for fw_devlink
> >   gpiolib: Clear the gpio_device's fwnode initialized flag before adding
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Add DL_FLAG_CYCLE support to device links
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Allow marking a fwnode link as being part of
> >     a cycle
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Consolidate device link flag computation
> >   driver core: fw_devlink: Make cycle detection more robust
> >   of: property: Simplify of_link_to_phandle()
> >
> >  drivers/base/core.c             | 437 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >  drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c          |   6 +
> >  drivers/of/property.c           |  84 +-----
> >  drivers/soc/renesas/rcar-sysc.c |   2 +-
> >  include/linux/device.h          |   1 +
> >  include/linux/fwnode.h          |  12 +-
> >  6 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog
> >