Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Make PCI's devres API more consistent

Philipp Stanner
2024-03-11T11:45:21Z

Gentle ping because the Merge Window opened 8-)

On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 12:29 +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> This v4 now can (hopefully) be applied to linux-next, but not to
> mainline/master.
>
> Changes in v4:
>   - Rebase against linux-next
>
> Changes in v3:
>   - Use the term "PCI devres API" at some forgotten places.
>   - Fix more grammar errors in patch #3.
>   - Remove the comment advising to call (the outdated) pcim_intx() in
> pci.c
>   - Rename __pcim_request_region_range() flags-field "exclusive" to
>     "req_flags", since this is what the int actually represents.
>   - Remove the call to pcim_region_request() from patch #10. (Hans)
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Make commit head lines congruent with PCI's style (Bjorn)
>   - Add missing error checks for devm_add_action(). (Andy)
>   - Repair the "Returns: " marks for docu generation (Andy)
>   - Initialize the addr_devres struct with memset(). (Andy)
>   - Make pcim_intx() a PCI-internal function so that new drivers
> won't
>     be encouraged to use the outdated pci_intx() mechanism.
>     (Andy / Philipp)
>   - Fix grammar and spelling (Bjorn)
>   - Be more precise on why pcim_iomap_table() is problematic (Bjorn)
>   - Provide the actual structs' and functions' names in the commit
>     messages (Bjorn)
>   - Remove redundant variable initializers (Andy)
>   - Regroup PM bitfield members in struct pci_dev (Andy)
>   - Make pcim_intx() visible only for the PCI subsystem so that
> new
>     drivers won't use this outdated API (Andy, Myself)
>   - Add a NOTE to pcim_iomap() to warn about this function being
> the    onee
>     xception that does just return NULL.
>   - Consistently use the term "PCI devres API"; also in Patch #10
> (Bjorn)
>
>
> ¡Hola!
>
> PCI's devres API suffers several weaknesses:
>
> 1. There are functions prefixed with pcim_. Those are always managed
>    counterparts to never-managed functions prefixed with pci_ – or so
> one
>    would like to think. There are some apparently unmanaged functions
>    (all region-request / release functions, and pci_intx()) which
>    suddenly become managed once the user has initialized the device
> with
>    pcim_enable_device() instead of pci_enable_device(). This
> "sometimes
>    yes, sometimes no" nature of those functions is confusing and
>    therefore bug-provoking. In fact, it has already caused a bug in
> DRM.
>    The last patch in this series fixes that bug.
> 2. iomappings: Instead of giving each mapping its own callback, the
>    existing API uses a statically allocated struct tracking one
> mapping
>    per bar. This is not extensible. Especially, you can't create
>    _ranged_ managed mappings that way, which many drivers want.
> 3. Managed request functions only exist as "plural versions" with a
>    bit-mask as a parameter. That's quite over-engineered considering
>    that each user only ever mapps one, maybe two bars.
>
> This series:
> - add a set of new "singular" devres functions that use devres the
> way
>   its intended, with one callback per resource.
> - deprecates the existing iomap-table mechanism.
> - deprecates the hybrid nature of pci_ functions.
> - preserves backwards compatibility so that drivers using the
> existing
>   API won't notice any changes.
> - adds documentation, especially some warning users about the
>   complicated nature of PCI's devres.
>
>
> Note that this series is based on my "unify pci_iounmap"-series from
> a
> few weeks ago. [1]
>
> I tested this on a x86 VM with a simple pci test-device with two
> regions. Operates and reserves resources as intended on my system.
> Kasan and kmemleak didn't find any problems.
>
> I believe this series cleans the API up as much as possible without
> having to port all existing drivers to the new API. Especially, I
> think
> that this implementation is easy to extend if the need for new
> managed
> functions arises :)
>
> Greetings,
> P.
>
> Philipp Stanner (10):
>   PCI: Add new set of devres functions
>   PCI: Deprecate iomap-table functions
>   PCI: Warn users about complicated devres nature
>   PCI: Make devres region requests consistent
>   PCI: Move dev-enabled status bit to struct pci_dev
>   PCI: Move pinned status bit to struct pci_dev
>   PCI: Give pcim_set_mwi() its own devres callback
>   PCI: Give pci(m)_intx its own devres callback
>   PCI: Remove legacy pcim_release()
>   drm/vboxvideo: fix mapping leaks
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c |   20 +-
>  drivers/pci/devres.c                  | 1013 +++++++++++++++++++++--
> --
>  drivers/pci/iomap.c                   |   18 +
>  drivers/pci/pci.c                     |  123 ++-
>  drivers/pci/pci.h                     |   21 +-
>  include/linux/pci.h                   |   18 +-
>  6 files changed, 1001 insertions(+), 212 deletions(-)
>