Re: [PATCH] base: soc: Export soc_device_to_device() helper

Andreas Färber
2019-11-12T00:29:14Z

Am 11.11.19 um 21:10 schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Am 11.11.19 um 07:40 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 06:42:05AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> Am 11.11.19 um 06:27 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 05:56:09AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>>> Use of soc_device_to_device() in driver modules causes a build failure.
>>>>> Given that the helper is nicely documented in include/linux/sys_soc.h,
>>>>> let's export it as GPL symbol.
>>>>
>>>> I thought we were fixing the soc drivers to not need this. What
>>>> happened to that effort? I thought I had patches in my tree (or
>>>> someone's tree) that did some of this work already, such that this
>>>> symbol isn't needed anymore.
>>>
>>> I do still see this function used in next-20191108 in drivers/soc/.
>>>
>>> I'll be happy to adjust my RFC driver if someone points me to how!
>>
>> Look at c31e73121f4c ("base: soc: Handle custom soc information sysfs
>> entries") for how you can just use the default attributes for the soc to
>> create the needed sysfs files, instead of having to do it "by hand"
>> which is racy and incorrect.
>
> Unrelated.
>
>>> Given the current struct layout, a type cast might work (but ugly).
>>> Or if we stay with my current RFC driver design, we could use the
>>> platform_device instead of the soc_device (which would clutter the
>>> screen more than "soc soc0:") or resort to pr_info() w/o device.
>>
>> Ick, no, don't cast blindly. What do you need the pointer for? Is this
>> for in-tree code?
>
> No, an RFC patchset: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11224261/
>
> As I indicated above, I used it for a dev_info(), which I can easily
> avoid by using pr_info() instead:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/realtek/chip.c b/drivers/soc/realtek/chip.c
> index e5078c6731fd..f9380e831659 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/realtek/chip.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/realtek/chip.c
> @@ -178,8 +178,7 @@ static int rtd_soc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> platform_set_drvdata(pdev, soc_dev);
>
> - dev_info(soc_device_to_device(soc_dev),
> - "%s %s (0x%08x) rev %s (0x%08x) detected\n",
> + pr_info("%s %s (0x%08x) rev %s (0x%08x) detected\n",
> soc_dev_attr->family, soc_dev_attr->soc_id, chip_id,
> soc_dev_attr->revision, chip_rev);
>

Tested and squashed in my tree.

>
> But as I said, there is still in-tree code using this helper:
[snip]
> So, not counting my unmerged Realtek driver,
> * we have two cases of struct device being used for dev_info(), which
> could be cleaned up with device-less pr_info(), I could post a patch,

Patch sent: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11237949/ (untested)

> * frequent usage in arm/mach-* for of_platform_default_populate(), this
> seems most difficult to replace if we neither want to cast nor expose
> the struct,

One clever way might be to implement a new of_soc_default_populate() in
drivers/base/soc.c that takes a soc_device instead of device, doing the
conversion inside soc.c and calling of_platform_default_populate() from
there. Then we could convert present users to pass around soc_device
instead of device, with a perspective to make soc_device_to_device()
static inside base/soc.c.

sys_soc.h does not presently #include any OF headers, so the declaration
may need to go into of_platform.h and to consider CONFIG_SOC_BUS.

Will require compile-testing for each platform and ideally some kbuild
bot passes to get right, so not a quick shot.

While at it, an of_soc_device_register() variant could fill
soc_device_attribute::machine in common code instead of each platform
duplicating to read this from the DT root node's model property.

> * some simply unused, which could be refactored to return void, and

Patch sent: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11237971/ (untested)

> * some for device_create_file(), which could probably be avoided with
> custom_attr_group.
>
> It also raises the question of whether new arm platforms such as RTD1195
> (mach-realtek) should attempt to use of_platform_default_populate() with
> the soc_device somehow, or if not, whether those platforms should be
> refactored to consistently no longer do so?
>
> I believe in the Broken Window Theory, i.e. fixing what we can before
> mistakes get copied and propagate further in code; but here I don't see
> a perspective for getting rid of soc_device_to_device() completely to
> prevent new usages, nor can I test all of those platforms myself.
>
> Has a cleanup based on custom_attr_group been attempted already and is
> waiting on patches to get reviewed and merged through maintainer trees,
> or do we need to prepare new cleanup patches here? A search for
> "soc_device_to_device" on LAKML Patchwork shows only this patch of mine.

Actually I don't find a single user of custom_attr_group in linux-next,
which may be because the patch introducing it is from October and people
are waiting on the next -rc1 before they can merge patches using it?

Regards,
Andreas

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