Em Mon, 28 Dec 2015 03:14:53 +0200 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx> escreveu: > Hi Mauro, > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 09:13:42AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Em Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:14:04 +0300 > > Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > > > Hi Javier, > > > > > > Thanks for the set! A few comments below. > > > > > > Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > > > > The media device node is registered and so made visible to user-space > > > > before entities are registered and links created which means that the > > > > media graph obtained by user-space could be only partially enumerated > > > > if that happens too early before all the graph has been created. > > > > > > > > To avoid this race condition, split the media init and registration > > > > in separate functions and only register the media device node when > > > > all the pending subdevices have been registered, either explicitly > > > > by the driver or asynchronously using v4l2_async_register_subdev(). > > > > > > > > Also, add a media_entity_cleanup() function that will destroy the > > > > graph_mutex that is initialized in media_entity_init(). > > > > > > > > Suggested-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > > drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-main.c | 1 + > > > > drivers/media/media-device.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++---- > > > > drivers/media/platform/exynos4-is/media-dev.c | 12 ++++++--- > > > > drivers/media/platform/omap3isp/isp.c | 11 +++++--- > > > > drivers/media/platform/s3c-camif/camif-core.c | 13 ++++++--- > > > > drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_drv.c | 19 ++++++++++---- > > > > drivers/media/platform/xilinx/xilinx-vipp.c | 11 +++++--- > > > > drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-core.c | 26 +++++++++++++----- > > > > drivers/media/usb/cx231xx/cx231xx-cards.c | 22 +++++++++++----- > > > > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c | 11 +++++--- > > > > drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c | 13 ++++++--- > > > > drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 14 ++++++++-- > > > > drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 9 +++++-- > > > > include/media/media-device.h | 2 ++ > > > > 14 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-main.c b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-main.c > > > > index ab345490a43a..8a1ea2192439 100644 > > > > --- a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-main.c > > > > +++ b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-main.c > > > > @@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ static void smsdvb_media_device_unregister(struct smsdvb_client_t *client) > > > > if (!coredev->media_dev) > > > > return; > > > > media_device_unregister(coredev->media_dev); > > > > + media_device_cleanup(coredev->media_dev); > > > > kfree(coredev->media_dev); > > > > coredev->media_dev = NULL; > > > > #endif > > > > diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c > > > > index 745defb34b33..a8beb0b445a6 100644 > > > > --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c > > > > +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c > > > > @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ static void media_device_release(struct media_devnode *mdev) > > > > } > > > > > > > > /** > > > > - * media_device_register - register a media device > > > > + * media_device_init() - initialize a media device > > > > * @mdev: The media device > > > > * > > > > * The caller is responsible for initializing the media device before > > > > @@ -534,12 +534,11 @@ static void media_device_release(struct media_devnode *mdev) > > > > * > > > > * - dev must point to the parent device > > > > * - model must be filled with the device model name > > > > + * > > > > + * returns zero on success or a negative error code. > > > > */ > > > > -int __must_check __media_device_register(struct media_device *mdev, > > > > - struct module *owner) > > > > +int __must_check media_device_init(struct media_device *mdev) > > > > > > I think I suggested making media_device_init() return void as the only > > > remaining source of errors would be driver bugs. > > > > > > I'd simply replace the WARN_ON() below with BUG(). > > > > That sounds like bad idea to me, and it is against the current > > Kernel policy of using BUG() only when there's no other way, e. g. on > > event so severe that the Kernel has no other thing to do except to > > stop running. > > > > For sure, this is not the case here. Also, all drivers have already > > a logic that checks if the device init happened. So, they should already > > be doing the right thing. > > My point is that it's simply counter-productive to require the caller to > perform error handling in cases such as the only possible source of the > error being a NULL argument passed to the callee. > > To give you some examples, device_register(), device_add() nor mutex_lock() > perform such checks. Some functions in V4L2 do, but I understand that's > sometimes for historical reasons where NULL arguments were allowed. Or that > there are other possible sources for errors in non-trivial functions and the > rest of the checks are done on the side. > > If you don't like BUG_ON(), just drop it. It's as simple as that. Ah, I see your point. Yeah, dropping WARN_ON makes sense. I'll address it. > If there are other sources of errors then the matter is naturally entirely > different. > Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
