The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 4f41fe386a94639cd9a1831298d4f85db5662f1e Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4f41fe386a94639cd9a1831298d4f85db5662f1e Author: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:21:25 -08:00 Committer: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:10:07 +01:00 clocksource/drivers/timer-probe: Avoid creating dead devices Timer initialization is done during early boot way before the driver core starts processing devices and drivers. Timers initialized during this early boot period don't really need or use a struct device. However, for timers represented as device tree nodes, the struct devices are still created and sit around unused and wasting memory. This change avoid this by marking the device tree nodes as "populated" if the corresponding timer is successfully initialized. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200111052125.238212-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/clocksource/timer-probe.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-probe.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-probe.c index ee9574d..a10f28d 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-probe.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-probe.c @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ void __init timer_probe(void) init_func_ret = match->data; + of_node_set_flag(np, OF_POPULATED); ret = init_func_ret(np); if (ret) { + of_node_clear_flag(np, OF_POPULATED); if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) pr_err("Failed to initialize '%pOF': %d\n", np, ret);