linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/base.h, branch v4.9.16

PM / sleep: prohibit devices probing during suspend/hibernation

2015-11-30T13:47:22+00:00

It is unsafe [1] if probing of devices will happen during suspend or
hibernation and system behavior will be unpredictable in this case.
So, let's prohibit device's probing in dpm_prepare() and defer their
probing instead. The normal behavior will be restored in
dpm_complete().

This patch introduces new DD core APIs:
 device_block_probing()
   It will disable probing of devices and defer their probes instead.
 device_unblock_probing()
   It will restore normal behavior and trigger re-probing of deferred
   devices.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/11/554

Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

driver core: correct device's shutdown order

2015-08-06T00:07:19+00:00

Now device's shutdown sequence is performed in reverse order of their
registration in devices_kset list and this sequence corresponds to the
reverse device's creation order. So, devices_kset data tracks
"parent<-child" device's dependencies only.

Unfortunately, that's not enough and causes problems in case of
implementing board's specific shutdown procedures. For example [1]:
"DRA7XX_evm uses PCF8575 and one of the PCF output lines feeds to
MMC/SD and this line should be driven high in order for the MMC/SD to
be detected. This line is modelled as regulator and the hsmmc driver
takes care of enabling and disabling it. In the case of 'reboot',
during shutdown path as part of it's cleanup process the hsmmc driver
disables this regulator. This makes MMC boot not functional."

To handle this issue the .shutdown() callback could be implemented
for PCF8575 device where corresponding GPIO pins will be configured to
states, required for correct warm/cold reset. This can be achieved
only when all .shutdown() callbacks have been called already for all
PCF8575's consumers. But devices_kset is not filled correctly now:

devices_kset: Device61 4e000000.dmm
devices_kset: Device62 48070000.i2c
devices_kset: Device63 48072000.i2c
devices_kset: Device64 48060000.i2c
devices_kset: Device65 4809c000.mmc
...
devices_kset: Device102 fixedregulator-sd
...
devices_kset: Device181 0-0020 // PCF8575
devices_kset: Device182 gpiochip496
devices_kset: Device183 0-0021 // PCF8575
devices_kset: Device184 gpiochip480

As can be seen from above .shutdown() callback for PCF8575 will be called
before its consumers, which, in turn means, that any changes of PCF8575
GPIO's pins will be or unsafe or overwritten later by GPIO's consumers.
The problem can be solved if devices_kset list will be filled not only
according device creation order, but also according device's probing
order to track "supplier<-consumer" dependencies also.

Hence, as a fix, lets add devices_kset_move_last(),
devices_kset_move_before(), devices_kset_move_after() and call them
from device_move() and also add call of devices_kset_move_last() in
really_probe(). After this change all entries in devices_kset will
be sorted according to device's creation ("parent<-child") and
probing ("supplier<-consumer") order.

devices_kset after:
devices_kset: Device121 48070000.i2c
devices_kset: Device122 i2c-0
...
devices_kset: Device147 regulator.24
devices_kset: Device148 0-0020
devices_kset: Device149 gpiochip496
devices_kset: Device150 0-0021
devices_kset: Device151 gpiochip480
devices_kset: Device152 0-0019
...
devices_kset: Device372 fixedregulator-sd
devices_kset: Device373 regulator.29
devices_kset: Device374 4809c000.mmc
devices_kset: Device375 mmc0

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mmc/msg29825.html

Cc: Sekhar Nori 
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix docbook for device_private.device

2015-08-06T00:07:19+00:00

This field refers to the public device struct, not to classes.

Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: add asynchronous probing support for drivers

2015-05-20T07:25:24+00:00

Some devices take a long time when initializing, and not all drivers are
suited to initialize their devices when they are open. For example,
input drivers need to interrogate their devices in order to publish
device's capabilities before userspace will open them. When such drivers
are compiled into kernel they may stall entire kernel initialization.

This change allows drivers request for their probe functions to be
called asynchronously during driver and device registration (manual
binding is still synchronous). Because async_schedule is used to perform
asynchronous calls module loading will still wait for the probing to
complete.

Note that the end goal is to make the probing asynchronous by default,
so annotating drivers with PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS is a temporary
measure that allows us to speed up boot process while we validating and
fixing the rest of the drivers and preparing userspace.

This change is based on earlier patch by "Luis R. Rodriguez"


Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device

2014-05-27T19:37:18+00:00

Having to allocate memory as part of dev_set_drvdata() is a problem
because that memory may never get freed if the device itself is not
created. So move driver_data back to struct device.

This is a partial revert of commit b4028437.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way

2013-12-29T14:25:48+00:00

ACPI container devices require special hotplug handling, at least
on some systems, since generally user space needs to carry out
system-specific cleanup before it makes sense to offline devices in
the container.  However, the current ACPI hotplug code for containers
first attempts to offline devices in the container and only then it
notifies user space of the container offline.

Moreover, after commit 202317a573b2 (ACPI / scan: Add acpi_device
objects for all device nodes in the namespace), ACPI device objects
representing containers are present as long as the ACPI namespace
nodes corresponding to them are present, which may be forever, even
if the container devices are physically detached from the system (the
return values of the corresponding _STA methods change in those
cases, but generally the namespace nodes themselves are still there).
Thus it is useful to introduce entities representing containers that
will go away during container hot-unplug.

The goal of this change is to address both the above issues.

The idea is to create a "companion" container system device for each
of the ACPI container device objects during the initial namespace
scan or on a hotplug event making the container present.  That system
device will be unregistered on container removal.  A new bus type
for container devices is added for this purpose, because device
offline and online operations need to be defined for them.  The
online operation is a trivial function that is always successful
and the offline uses a callback pointed to by the container device's
offline member.

For ACPI containers that callback simply walks the list of ACPI
device objects right below the container object (its children) and
checks if all of their physical companion devices are offline.  If
that's not the case, it returns -EBUSY and the container system
devivce cannot be put offline.  Consequently, to put the container
system device offline, it is necessary to put all of the physical
devices depending on its ACPI companion object offline beforehand.

Container system devices created for ACPI container objects are
initially online.  They are created by the container ACPI scan
handler whose hotplug.demand_offline flag is set.  That causes
acpi_scan_hot_remove() to check if the companion container system
device is offline before attempting to remove an ACPI container or
any devices below it.  If the check fails, a KOBJ_CHANGE uevent is
emitted for the container system device in question and user space
is expected to offline all devices below the container and the
container itself in response to it.  Then, user space can finalize
the removal of the container with the help of its ACPI device
object's eject attribute in sysfs.

Tested-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: bus_type: add drv_groups

2013-08-12T22:33:31+00:00

attribute groups are much more flexible than just a list of attributes,
due to their support for visibility of the attributes, and binary
attributes. Add drv_groups to struct bus_type which should be used
instead of drv_attrs.

drv_attrs will be removed from the structure soon.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: bus_type: add dev_groups

2013-08-12T22:33:31+00:00

attribute groups are much more flexible than just a list of attributes,
due to their support for visibility of the attributes, and binary
attributes. Add dev_groups to struct bus_type which should be used
instead of dev_attrs.

dev_attrs will be removed from the structure soon.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver/base: implement subsys_virtual_register()

2013-03-12T18:36:35+00:00

Kay tells me the most appropriate place to expose workqueues to
userland would be /sys/devices/virtual/workqueues/WQ_NAME which is
symlinked to /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/WQ_NAME and that we're lacking
a way to do that outside of driver core as virtual_device_parent()
isn't exported and there's no inteface to conveniently create a
virtual subsystem.

This patch implements subsys_virtual_register() by factoring out
subsys_register() from subsys_system_register() and using it with
virtual_device_parent() as the origin directory.  It's identical to
subsys_system_register() other than the origin directory but we aren't
gonna restrict the device names which should be used under it.

This will be used to expose workqueue attributes to userland.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Kay Sievers

driver core: move the deferred probe pointer into the private area

2012-03-08T20:17:22+00:00

Nothing outside of the driver core needs to get to the deferred probe
pointer, so move it inside the private area of 'struct device' so no one
tries to mess around with it.

Cc: Grant Likely 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman