Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Exynos IOMMU: proper runtime PM support (use device dependencies)

[Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:49:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 10:51:13 AM Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > On 2016-09-19 23:45, Tobias Jakobi wrote:
> > > I did some tests with the new version today. Sadly the reboot/shutdown
> > > issues are still present.
> > 
> > Thanks for the report. I've managed to reproduce this issue and it is again
> > caused by modifying device on devices_kset list before it will be finally
> > added by device_add(). I thought that the new patchset allows creating
> > links to a device, which has not been yet added to system device list.

Hm, Marek, why isn't it possible to set up the links from the consumer's
->probe hook in this case?


> > Should it be allowed to create a link to device, which
> > has not yet been added to system device list by device_add()?
> 
> While it would be easy to require both the consumer and producer devices to
> be registered for creating a link between them, that would just make it
> harder to use links in the first place.
> 
> So ideally, it should be possible to create links between devices before
> registering them, but since I didn't take that into account in the current
> patch series, some quite substantial changes are needed to cover that.
> 
> Additional link states come to mind, but then the "stateless" links are
> affected by this problem too.

device_link_add() could be changed to call device_reorder_to_tail()
only if device_is_registered(consumer) returns true.

That's an inline function defined in <linux/device.h> which returns
dev->kobj.state_in_sysfs, a flag which is set in kobject_add().

Then device_add() would have to check if any links are already
set up and reorder the consumer behind the suppliers.

Doesn't seem to be *that* complex, but probably I'm missing something,
this is just off the cuff...

Best regards,

Lukas