[PATCH RFC] driver core: Reprobe consumer if it was unbound by dropped device_link

[Jyri Sarha]

On 25/02/18 11:22, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 07:42:46PM +0200, Jyri Sarha wrote:
>> Put consumer device to deferred probe list if it is unbound due to a
>> dropped link to a supplier.
>>
>> When a device link supplier is unbound (either manually or because one
>> of its own suppliers was unbound), its consumers are unbound as
>> well. Currently if the supplier binds again after this the consumer
>> does not automatically probe again. With this patch it does.
> 
> Yes I think this makes sense, based on the rationale that the consumer
> was automatically unbound, so by symmetry it should also be automatically
> rebound.
> 
> The only thing I don't understand is you wrote in an earlier e-mail of a
> difference in behavior depending on whether driver_deferred_probe_add()
> is called before or after device_release_driver_internal().
> That's really odd, it shouldn't make a difference.
> 

In that version there was a couple of other bugs elsewhere in the
system. I tried to reproduce that situation again multiple times, but I
could not (even write those bugs back in there, and move the link
creation back to panel bridge code). But even from reading the code that
difference did not make any sense. I suspect a heisen-bug, after I have
read the code and understood that the crash is not possible, it does not
happen anymore :).

With the current version I could not find any difference in behaviour
depending on the order of device_release_driver_internal() and
driver_deferred_probe_add() calls. I just thought having them in this
order just lookes nicer.

I stress tested the code by unloading and loading the panel driver in a
tight loop, for several minutes, but it simply wont crash (not in this
setup anyway). The probe of tilcdc eventually gracefully fails in a CMA
failure.

Best regards,
Jyri

> Thanks,
> 
> Lukas
> 
>>
>> If this patch is not acceptable as such, how about adding this
>> behavior behind a new device link flag?
>>
>> The idea to this patch was gotten from this post by Lucas Wunner:
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg166318.html
>>
>> Part of the code and the description is borrowed from him.
>>
>> cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de>
>> cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
>> cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jyri Sarha <jsarha at ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/base/base.h | 1 +
>>  drivers/base/core.c | 2 ++
>>  drivers/base/dd.c   | 2 +-
>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
>> index d800de6..39370eb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/base.h
>> +++ b/drivers/base/base.h
>> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ extern void device_release_driver_internal(struct device *dev,
>>  
>>  extern void driver_detach(struct device_driver *drv);
>>  extern int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *drv, struct device *dev);
>> +extern void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev);
>>  extern void driver_deferred_probe_del(struct device *dev);
>>  static inline int driver_match_device(struct device_driver *drv,
>>  				      struct device *dev)
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>> index b2261f9..0964ed5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>> @@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ void device_links_unbind_consumers(struct device *dev)
>>  
>>  			device_release_driver_internal(consumer, NULL,
>>  						       consumer->parent);
>> +			driver_deferred_probe_add(consumer);
>> +
>>  			put_device(consumer);
>>  			goto start;
>>  		}
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
>> index de6fd09..846ae78 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
>> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
>>  }
>>  static DECLARE_WORK(deferred_probe_work, deferred_probe_work_func);
>>  
>> -static void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev)
>> +void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev)
>>  {
>>  	mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
>>  	if (list_empty(&dev->p->deferred_probe)) {


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