Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap_resource'

Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-17T10:48:57Z

On Thursday 17 July 2014 12:40:25 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 07/17/2014 11:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 July 2014 09:27:58 Chen Gang wrote:
> >> gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
> >> extern void devm_free_pages(struct device *dev, unsigned long addr);
> >>
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM
> >> void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev, struct resource *res);
> >> +#elif defined(CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST)
> >> +static inline void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev,
> >> + struct resource *res)
> >> +{
> >> + pr_warn("no hardware io memory, only for COMPILE_TEST\n");
> >> + return (__force void __iomem *)ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
> >> +}
> >> +#endif /* CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM || CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST */
> >>
> >> /* allows to add/remove a custom action to devres stack */
> >
> > To be honest, I think it's a bad idea to introduce wrappers functions
> > that are only available when CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST is set.
> >
> > COMPILE_TEST is a great tool in general, but it has its limits.
> > In particular, the case for !CONFIG_IOMEM is completely obscure
> > and we won't find any bugs by allowing more drivers to be built
> > in those configurations, but attempting to do it would cause
> > endless churn by changing each instance of 'depends on HAS_IOMEM'
> > to 'depends on HAS_IOMEM || COMPILE_TEST'.
>
> The point of this exercise is that we do not have to replace a good chunk of
> 'depends on COMPILE_TEST' with 'depends on COMPILE_TEST && HAS_IOMEM'

Ok, I see.

> E.g. the typical Kconfig entry for your random SoC peripheral driver looks like
>
> config ARCH_FOOBAR_DRIVER
> depends on ARCH_FOOBAR || COMPILE_TEST
> ...
>
> Now when COMPILE_TEST is not set there is a implicit dependency on HAS_IOMEM
> since the architecture will provide it. If COMPILE_TEST is selected the
> driver will also be build-able on architectures that do no have HAS_IOMEM
> and hence linking the driver fails. One way to fix this is of course to
> replace the COMPILE_TEST with (COMPILE_TEST && HAS_IOMEM). But this is very
> often overlooked and only noticed later on when somebody actually builds a
> allyesconfig on an architecture that does not provide HAS_IOMEM. To avoid
> these kinds of build errors and tedious fixup patches the idea is to provide
> a stub function when HAS_IOMEM is not enabled, but COMPILE_TEST is enabled.

AFAICT, NO_IOMEM only has a real purpose on UML these days. Could we take
a shortcut here and make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML? Getting random stuff
to build on UML seems pointless to me and we special-case it in a number of
places already.

Arnd