Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

Hi Saravana,

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 03:09:32PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> The deferred probe timer that's used for this currently starts at
> late_initcall and runs for driver_deferred_probe_timeout seconds. The
> assumption being that all available drivers would be loaded and
> registered before the timer expires. This means, the
> driver_deferred_probe_timeout has to be pretty large for it to cover the
> worst case. But if we set the default value for it to cover the worst
> case, it would significantly slow down the average case. For this
> reason, the default value is set to 0.
> 
> Also, with CONFIG_MODULES=y and the current default values of
> driver_deferred_probe_timeout=0 and fw_devlink=on, devices with missing
> drivers will cause their consumer devices to always defer their probes.
> This is because device links created by fw_devlink defer the probe even
> before the consumer driver's probe() is called.
> 
> Instead of a fixed timeout, if we extend an unexpired deferred probe
> timer on every successful driver registration, with the expectation more
> modules would be loaded in the near future, then the default value of
> driver_deferred_probe_timeout only needs to be as long as the worst case
> time difference between two consecutive module loads.
> 
> So let's implement that and set the default value to 10 seconds when
> CONFIG_MODULES=y.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
> Cc: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>

I bisected a boot hang with ARCH=s390 defconfig in QEMU down to this
change as commit 2b28a1a84a0e ("driver core: Extend deferred probe
timeout on driver registration") in next-20220520 (bisect log below).

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu- defconfig bzImage

$ timeout --foreground 15m stdbuf -oL -eL \
qemu-system-s390x \
-initrd ... \
-M s390-ccw-virtio \
-display none \
-kernel arch/s390/boot/bzImage \
-m 512m \
-nodefaults \
-serial mon:stdio
...
[    2.077303] In-situ OAM (IOAM) with IPv6
[    2.077639] NET: Registered PF_PACKET protocol family
[    2.078063] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[    2.078795] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    2.079317] cio: Channel measurement facility initialized using format extended (mode autodetected)
[    2.081494] Discipline DIAG cannot be used without z/VM
[  260.626363] random: crng init done
qemu-system-s390x: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3815762 (timeout)

We have a simple rootfs available if necessary:

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/boot-utils/raw/bc0d17785eb67f1edd0ee0a134970a807895f741/images/s390/rootfs.cpio.zst

If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know!

Cheers,
Nathan

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