[PATCH] mtd: atmel_nand: fix bug driver will in a dead lock if no nand detected

[computersforpeace@gmail.com (Brian Norris)]

Hi Josh,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:26:28AM +0800, Josh Wu wrote:
> On 11/13/2013 8:10 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:46:30AM +0800, Josh Wu wrote:
> >>On 11/8/2013 2:09 AM, Brian Norris wrote:
> >>>   if (nand_nfc.is_initialized) {
> >>>     ...
> >>Yes, exactly.
> >>And the NAND probe will also load the NFC device before it reach
> >>above check code.
> >No, it loads the *driver*, not the *device*. I'm not familiar with the
> >driver core guarantees, but I don't think you can guarantee that just
> >because a driver was registered before another that the corresponding
> >devices will be probed in that order. Or are you relying on the
> >dependencies captured by device tree? (I don't think even the
> >parent/child dependency between NAND/NFC gives you enough.)
> 
> I put  more code here to make it clearer:
> 
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sama5d3.dtsi:
> nand0: nand at 60000000 {
>             compatible = "atmel,at91rm9200-nand";
>             ...
>             ranges;
>             ...
>             nfc at 70000000 {
>                 compatible = "atmel,sama5d3-nfc";
>                 ...
>             };
>         };

Ah, so you're focusing purely on the device tree support? It seems this
driver also supports traditional platform devices, but nobody uses NFC
without DT? That explains some things.

> drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c
> int atmel_of_init_port() {
>    ...
>    /* load the nfc driver if there is */
>   of_platform_populate(np, NULL, NULL, host->dev);   # <--- Manually
> populate the sub node (NFC node) to load NFC driver
>   ...
> }

Right, that makes sense. So the ordering of the driver registration
stuff is kind of a distraction in this case, then. It's this portion of
the NAND probe that triggers bus_probe_device() to initialize the NFC
device before continuing on.

[snip rest of explanation; thanks!]

So I don't think you have a problem for device tree platforms. But if
someone were to try to instantiate these devices via
platform_device_register(), they will have a problem.

Please, do follow up with the cleanup to the driver registration that
you mentioned.

Brian