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.. |struct dev_pm_domain| replace:: :c:type:`struct dev_pm_domain <dev_pm_domain>`
.. |struct generic_pm_domain| replace:: :c:type:`struct generic_pm_domain <generic_pm_domain>`
.. _device_link:
============
Device links
============
By default, the driver core only enforces dependencies between devices
that are borne out of a parent/child relationship within the device
hierarchy: When suspending, resuming or shutting down the system, devices
are ordered based on this relationship, i.e. children are always suspended
before their parent, and the parent is always resumed before its children.
Sometimes there is a need to represent device dependencies beyond the
mere parent/child relationship, e.g. between siblings, and have the
driver core automatically take care of them.
Secondly, the driver core by default does not enforce any driver presence
dependencies, i.e. that one device must be bound to a driver before
another one can probe or function correctly.
Often these two dependency types come together, so a device depends on
another one both with regards to driver presence *and* with regards to
suspend/resume and shutdown ordering.
Device links allow representation of such dependencies in the driver core.
driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected to drop references to them via device_link_del() or device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the "persistent" link concept. If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice. This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links. These device links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just fine. For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too. After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link without incrementing its reference counter. Accordingly, device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link. Thus, effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver core. In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that (a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add() is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair. Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the above changes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:58:33 +00:00
In its standard or *managed* form, a device link combines *both* dependency
types: It guarantees correct suspend/resume and shutdown ordering between a
"supplier" device and its "consumer" devices, and it guarantees driver
presence on the supplier. The consumer devices are not probed before the
supplier is bound to a driver, and they're unbound before the supplier
is unbound.
When driver presence on the supplier is irrelevant and only correct
suspend/resume and shutdown ordering is needed, the device link may
simply be set up with the ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` flag. In other words,
enforcing driver presence on the supplier is optional.
Another optional feature is runtime PM integration: By setting the
``DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME`` flag on addition of the device link, the PM core
is instructed to runtime resume the supplier and keep it active
whenever and for as long as the consumer is runtime resumed.
Usage
=====
The earliest point in time when device links can be added is after
:c:func:`device_add()` has been called for the supplier and
:c:func:`device_initialize()` has been called for the consumer.
It is legal to add them later, but care must be taken that the system
remains in a consistent state: E.g. a device link cannot be added in
the midst of a suspend/resume transition, so either commencement of
such a transition needs to be prevented with :c:func:`lock_system_sleep()`,
or the device link needs to be added from a function which is guaranteed
not to run in parallel to a suspend/resume transition, such as from a
device ``->probe`` callback or a boot-time PCI quirk.
Another example for an inconsistent state would be a device link that
represents a driver presence dependency, yet is added from the consumer's
driver core: Fix adding device links to probing suppliers Currently, it is not valid to add a device link from a consumer driver ->probe callback to a supplier that is still probing too, but generally this is a valid use case. For example, if the consumer has just acquired a resource that can only be available if the supplier is functional, adding a device link to that supplier right away should be safe (and even desirable arguably), but device_link_add() doesn't handle that case correctly and the initial state of the link created by it is wrong then. To address this problem, change the initial state of device links added between a probing supplier and a probing consumer to DL_STATE_CONSUMER_PROBE and update device_links_driver_bound() to skip such links on the supplier side. With this change, if the supplier probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will skip the link state update and when it is called for the consumer, the link state will be updated to "active". In turn, if the consumer probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will change the state of the link to "active" and when it is called for the supplier, the link status update will be skipped. However, in principle the supplier or consumer probe may still fail after the link has been added, so modify device_links_no_driver() to change device links in the "active" or "consumer probe" state to "dormant" on the supplier side and update __device_links_no_driver() to change the link state to "available" only if it is "consumer probe" or "active". Then, if the supplier probe fails first, the leftover link to the probing consumer will become "dormant" and device_links_no_driver() called for the consumer (when its probe fails) will clean it up. In turn, if the consumer probe fails first, it will either drop the link, or change its state to "available" and, in the latter case, when device_links_no_driver() is called for the supplier, it will update the link state to "dormant". [If the supplier probe fails, but the consumer probe succeeds, which should not happen as long as the consumer driver is correct, the link still will be around, but it will be "dormant" until the supplier is probed again.] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:50:39 +00:00
``->probe`` callback while the supplier hasn't started to probe yet: Had the
driver core known about the device link earlier, it wouldn't have probed the
consumer in the first place. The onus is thus on the consumer to check
presence of the supplier after adding the link, and defer probing on
driver core: Fix adding device links to probing suppliers Currently, it is not valid to add a device link from a consumer driver ->probe callback to a supplier that is still probing too, but generally this is a valid use case. For example, if the consumer has just acquired a resource that can only be available if the supplier is functional, adding a device link to that supplier right away should be safe (and even desirable arguably), but device_link_add() doesn't handle that case correctly and the initial state of the link created by it is wrong then. To address this problem, change the initial state of device links added between a probing supplier and a probing consumer to DL_STATE_CONSUMER_PROBE and update device_links_driver_bound() to skip such links on the supplier side. With this change, if the supplier probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will skip the link state update and when it is called for the consumer, the link state will be updated to "active". In turn, if the consumer probe completes first, device_links_driver_bound() called for it will change the state of the link to "active" and when it is called for the supplier, the link status update will be skipped. However, in principle the supplier or consumer probe may still fail after the link has been added, so modify device_links_no_driver() to change device links in the "active" or "consumer probe" state to "dormant" on the supplier side and update __device_links_no_driver() to change the link state to "available" only if it is "consumer probe" or "active". Then, if the supplier probe fails first, the leftover link to the probing consumer will become "dormant" and device_links_no_driver() called for the consumer (when its probe fails) will clean it up. In turn, if the consumer probe fails first, it will either drop the link, or change its state to "available" and, in the latter case, when device_links_no_driver() is called for the supplier, it will update the link state to "dormant". [If the supplier probe fails, but the consumer probe succeeds, which should not happen as long as the consumer driver is correct, the link still will be around, but it will be "dormant" until the supplier is probed again.] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:50:39 +00:00
non-presence. [Note that it is valid to create a link from the consumer's
``->probe`` callback while the supplier is still probing, but the consumer must
know that the supplier is functional already at the link creation time (that is
the case, for instance, if the consumer has just acquired some resources that
would not have been available had the supplier not been functional then).]
driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected to drop references to them via device_link_del() or device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the "persistent" link concept. If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice. This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links. These device links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just fine. For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too. After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link without incrementing its reference counter. Accordingly, device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link. Thus, effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver core. In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that (a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add() is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair. Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the above changes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:58:33 +00:00
If a device link with ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` set (i.e. a stateless device link)
is added in the ``->probe`` callback of the supplier or consumer driver, it is
typically deleted in its ``->remove`` callback for symmetry. That way, if the
driver is compiled as a module, the device link is added on module load and
orderly deleted on unload. The same restrictions that apply to device link
addition (e.g. exclusion of a parallel suspend/resume transition) apply equally
driver core: Remove device link creation limitation If device_link_add() is called for a consumer/supplier pair with an existing device link between them and the existing link's type is not in agreement with the flags passed to that function by its caller, NULL will be returned. That is seriously inconvenient, because it forces the callers of device_link_add() to worry about what others may or may not do even if that is not relevant to them for any other reasons. It turns out, however, that this limitation can be made go away relatively easily. The underlying observation is that if DL_FLAG_STATELESS has been passed to device_link_add() in flags for the given consumer/supplier pair at least once, calling either device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to release the link returned by it should work, but there are no other requirements associated with that flag. In turn, if at least one of the callers of device_link_add() for the given consumer/supplier pair has not passed DL_FLAG_STATELESS to it in flags, the driver core should track the status of the link and act on it as appropriate (ie. the link should be treated as "managed"). This means that DL_FLAG_STATELESS needs to be set for managed device links and it should be valid to call device_link_del() or device_link_remove() to drop references to them in certain sutiations. To allow that to happen, introduce a new (internal) device link flag called DL_FLAG_MANAGED and make device_link_add() set it automatically whenever DL_FLAG_STATELESS is not passed to it. Also make it take additional references to existing device links that were previously stateless (that is, with DL_FLAG_STATELESS set and DL_FLAG_MANAGED unset) and will need to be managed going forward and initialize their status (which has been DL_STATE_NONE so far). Accordingly, when a managed device link is dropped automatically by the driver core, make it clear DL_FLAG_MANAGED, reset the link's status back to DL_STATE_NONE and drop the reference to it associated with DL_FLAG_MANAGED instead of just deleting it right away (to allow it to stay around in case it still needs to be released explicitly by someone). With that, since setting DL_FLAG_STATELESS doesn't mean that the device link in question is not managed any more, replace all of the status-tracking checks against DL_FLAG_STATELESS with analogous checks against DL_FLAG_MANAGED and update the documentation to reflect these changes. While at it, make device_link_add() reject flags that it does not recognize, including DL_FLAG_MANAGED. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Review-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2305283.AStDPdUUnE@kreacher Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-07-16 15:21:06 +00:00
to deletion. Device links managed by the driver core are deleted automatically
by it.
Several flags may be specified on device link addition, two of which
have already been mentioned above: ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` to express that no
driver presence dependency is needed (but only correct suspend/resume and
shutdown ordering) and ``DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME`` to express that runtime PM
integration is desired.
Two other flags are specifically targeted at use cases where the device
link is added from the consumer's ``->probe`` callback: ``DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE``
can be specified to runtime resume the supplier and prevent it from suspending
before the consumer is runtime suspended. ``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER``
causes the device link to be automatically purged when the consumer fails to
probe or later unbinds.
Similarly, when the device link is added from supplier's ``->probe`` callback,
``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER`` causes the device link to be automatically
purged when the supplier fails to probe or later unbinds.
If neither ``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER`` nor ``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER``
is set, ``DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER`` can be used to request the driver core
to probe for a driver for the consumer driver on the link automatically after
a driver has been bound to the supplier device.
Note, however, that any combinations of ``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER``,
``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER`` or ``DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER`` with
``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` are invalid and cannot be used.
Limitations
===========
driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected to drop references to them via device_link_del() or device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the "persistent" link concept. If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice. This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links. These device links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just fine. For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too. After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link without incrementing its reference counter. Accordingly, device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link. Thus, effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver core. In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that (a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add() is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair. Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the above changes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:58:33 +00:00
Driver authors should be aware that a driver presence dependency for managed
device links (i.e. when ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` is not specified on link addition)
may cause probing of the consumer to be deferred indefinitely. This can become
a problem if the consumer is required to probe before a certain initcall level
is reached. Worse, if the supplier driver is blacklisted or missing, the
consumer will never be probed.
Moreover, managed device links cannot be deleted directly. They are deleted
by the driver core when they are not necessary any more in accordance with the
``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER`` and ``DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER`` flags.
However, stateless device links (i.e. device links with ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS``
set) are expected to be removed by whoever called :c:func:`device_link_add()`
to add them with the help of either :c:func:`device_link_del()` or
:c:func:`device_link_remove()`.
Passing ``DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE`` along with ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` to
:c:func:`device_link_add()` may cause the PM-runtime usage counter of the
supplier device to remain nonzero after a subsequent invocation of either
:c:func:`device_link_del()` or :c:func:`device_link_remove()` to remove the
device link returned by it. This happens if :c:func:`device_link_add()` is
called twice in a row for the same consumer-supplier pair without removing the
link between these calls, in which case allowing the PM-runtime usage counter
of the supplier to drop on an attempt to remove the link may cause it to be
suspended while the consumer is still PM-runtime-active and that has to be
avoided. [To work around this limitation it is sufficient to let the consumer
runtime suspend at least once, or call :c:func:`pm_runtime_set_suspended()` for
it with PM-runtime disabled, between the :c:func:`device_link_add()` and
:c:func:`device_link_del()` or :c:func:`device_link_remove()` calls.]
Sometimes drivers depend on optional resources. They are able to operate
in a degraded mode (reduced feature set or performance) when those resources
are not present. An example is an SPI controller that can use a DMA engine
or work in PIO mode. The controller can determine presence of the optional
resources at probe time but on non-presence there is no way to know whether
they will become available in the near future (due to a supplier driver
probing) or never. Consequently it cannot be determined whether to defer
probing or not. It would be possible to notify drivers when optional
resources become available after probing, but it would come at a high cost
for drivers as switching between modes of operation at runtime based on the
availability of such resources would be much more complex than a mechanism
based on probe deferral. In any case optional resources are beyond the
scope of device links.
Examples
========
* An MMU device exists alongside a busmaster device, both are in the same
power domain. The MMU implements DMA address translation for the busmaster
device and shall be runtime resumed and kept active whenever and as long
as the busmaster device is active. The busmaster device's driver shall
not bind before the MMU is bound. To achieve this, a device link with
runtime PM integration is added from the busmaster device (consumer)
to the MMU device (supplier). The effect with regards to runtime PM
is the same as if the MMU was the parent of the master device.
The fact that both devices share the same power domain would normally
suggest usage of a |struct dev_pm_domain| or |struct generic_pm_domain|,
however these are not independent devices that happen to share a power
switch, but rather the MMU device serves the busmaster device and is
useless without it. A device link creates a synthetic hierarchical
relationship between the devices and is thus more apt.
* A Thunderbolt host controller comprises a number of PCIe hotplug ports
and an NHI device to manage the PCIe switch. On resume from system sleep,
the NHI device needs to re-establish PCI tunnels to attached devices
before the hotplug ports can resume. If the hotplug ports were children
of the NHI, this resume order would automatically be enforced by the
PM core, but unfortunately they're aunts. The solution is to add
device links from the hotplug ports (consumers) to the NHI device
(supplier). A driver presence dependency is not necessary for this
use case.
* Discrete GPUs in hybrid graphics laptops often feature an HDA controller
for HDMI/DP audio. In the device hierarchy the HDA controller is a sibling
of the VGA device, yet both share the same power domain and the HDA
controller is only ever needed when an HDMI/DP display is attached to the
VGA device. A device link from the HDA controller (consumer) to the
VGA device (supplier) aptly represents this relationship.
* ACPI allows definition of a device start order by way of _DEP objects.
A classical example is when ACPI power management methods on one device
are implemented in terms of I\ :sup:`2`\ C accesses and require a specific
I\ :sup:`2`\ C controller to be present and functional for the power
management of the device in question to work.
* In some SoCs a functional dependency exists from display, video codec and
video processing IP cores on transparent memory access IP cores that handle
burst access and compression/decompression.
Alternatives
============
* A |struct dev_pm_domain| can be used to override the bus,
class or device type callbacks. It is intended for devices sharing
a single on/off switch, however it does not guarantee a specific
suspend/resume ordering, this needs to be implemented separately.
It also does not by itself track the runtime PM status of the involved
devices and turn off the power switch only when all of them are runtime
suspended. Furthermore it cannot be used to enforce a specific shutdown
ordering or a driver presence dependency.
* A |struct generic_pm_domain| is a lot more heavyweight than a
device link and does not allow for shutdown ordering or driver presence
dependencies. It also cannot be used on ACPI systems.
Implementation
==============
The device hierarchy, which -- as the name implies -- is a tree,
becomes a directed acyclic graph once device links are added.
Ordering of these devices during suspend/resume is determined by the
dpm_list. During shutdown it is determined by the devices_kset. With
no device links present, the two lists are a flattened, one-dimensional
representations of the device tree such that a device is placed behind
all its ancestors. That is achieved by traversing the ACPI namespace
or OpenFirmware device tree top-down and appending devices to the lists
as they are discovered.
Once device links are added, the lists need to satisfy the additional
constraint that a device is placed behind all its suppliers, recursively.
To ensure this, upon addition of the device link the consumer and the
entire sub-graph below it (all children and consumers of the consumer)
are moved to the end of the list. (Call to :c:func:`device_reorder_to_tail()`
from :c:func:`device_link_add()`.)
To prevent introduction of dependency loops into the graph, it is
verified upon device link addition that the supplier is not dependent
on the consumer or any children or consumers of the consumer.
(Call to :c:func:`device_is_dependent()` from :c:func:`device_link_add()`.)
If that constraint is violated, :c:func:`device_link_add()` will return
``NULL`` and a ``WARNING`` will be logged.
Notably this also prevents the addition of a device link from a parent
device to a child. However the converse is allowed, i.e. a device link
from a child to a parent. Since the driver core already guarantees
correct suspend/resume and shutdown ordering between parent and child,
such a device link only makes sense if a driver presence dependency is
needed on top of that. In this case driver authors should weigh
carefully if a device link is at all the right tool for the purpose.
A more suitable approach might be to simply use deferred probing or
add a device flag causing the parent driver to be probed before the
child one.
State machine
=============
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/device.h
:functions: device_link_state
::
.=============================.
| |
v |
DORMANT <=> AVAILABLE <=> CONSUMER_PROBE => ACTIVE
^ |
| |
'============ SUPPLIER_UNBIND <============'
* The initial state of a device link is automatically determined by
:c:func:`device_link_add()` based on the driver presence on the supplier
and consumer. If the link is created before any devices are probed, it
is set to ``DL_STATE_DORMANT``.
* When a supplier device is bound to a driver, links to its consumers
progress to ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_driver_bound()` from
:c:func:`driver_bound()`.)
* Before a consumer device is probed, presence of supplier drivers is
verified by checking the consumer device is not in the wait_for_suppliers
list and by checking that links to suppliers are in ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE``
state. The state of the links is updated to ``DL_STATE_CONSUMER_PROBE``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_check_suppliers()` from
:c:func:`really_probe()`.)
This prevents the supplier from unbinding.
(Call to :c:func:`wait_for_device_probe()` from
:c:func:`device_links_unbind_consumers()`.)
* If the probe fails, links to suppliers revert back to ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_no_driver()` from :c:func:`really_probe()`.)
* If the probe succeeds, links to suppliers progress to ``DL_STATE_ACTIVE``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_driver_bound()` from :c:func:`driver_bound()`.)
* When the consumer's driver is later on removed, links to suppliers revert
back to ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE``.
(Call to :c:func:`__device_links_no_driver()` from
:c:func:`device_links_driver_cleanup()`, which in turn is called from
:c:func:`__device_release_driver()`.)
* Before a supplier's driver is removed, links to consumers that are not
bound to a driver are updated to ``DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_busy()` from
:c:func:`__device_release_driver()`.)
This prevents the consumers from binding.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_check_suppliers()` from
:c:func:`really_probe()`.)
Consumers that are bound are freed from their driver; consumers that are
probing are waited for until they are done.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_unbind_consumers()` from
:c:func:`__device_release_driver()`.)
Once all links to consumers are in ``DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND`` state,
the supplier driver is released and the links revert to ``DL_STATE_DORMANT``.
(Call to :c:func:`device_links_driver_cleanup()` from
:c:func:`__device_release_driver()`.)
API
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/core.c
driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected to drop references to them via device_link_del() or device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the "persistent" link concept. If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice. This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links. These device links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just fine. For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too. After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link without incrementing its reference counter. Accordingly, device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link. Thus, effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver core. In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that (a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add() is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the same consumer-supplier pair. Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the above changes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 00:58:33 +00:00
:functions: device_link_add device_link_del device_link_remove