Re: [PATCH v1 2/7] serdev: add dev_pm_domain_attach|detach()

[Sean Wang]

On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 12:29 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> > In order to open up the required power gate before any operation can be
> > effectively performed over the serial bus between CPU and serdev, it's
> > clearly essential to add common attach functions for PM domains to serdev
> > at the probe phase.
> > 
> > Similarly, the relevant dettach function for the PM domains should be
> > properly and reversely added at the remove phase.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > drivers/tty/serdev/core.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c b/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > index df93b72..c93d8ee 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> > #include <linux/module.h>
> > #include <linux/of.h>
> > #include <linux/of_device.h>
> > +#include <linux/pm_domain.h>
> > #include <linux/serdev.h>
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > 
> > @@ -330,8 +331,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serdev_device_set_tiocm);
> > static int serdev_drv_probe(struct device *dev)
> > {
> > 	const struct serdev_device_driver *sdrv = to_serdev_device_driver(dev->driver);
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	ret = dev_pm_domain_attach(dev, true);
> > +	if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> > +		ret = sdrv->probe(to_serdev_device(dev));
> > +		if (ret)
> > +			dev_pm_domain_detach(dev, true);
> > +	}
> 
> so if this is deferred, when does the serdev device gets probed?
> 

driver probe deferral mechanism is supported in driver core

deferred_probe_initcall makes sure that deferred probing is
delayed until late_initcall time.


Below is a few of word I got from drivers/base/core.c I thought it helps
to understand the mechanism in complete picture

* If a required resource is not available yet, a driver can
request probing to be deferred by returning -EPROBE_DEFER from
its probe hook.

* A driver returning -EPROBE_DEFER causes the device to be added to the
pending list.  A successful driver probe will trigger moving all devices
from the pending to the active list so that the workqueue will
eventually retry them.

> > 
> > -	return sdrv->probe(to_serdev_device(dev));
> > +	return ret;
> > }
> > 
> > static int serdev_drv_remove(struct device *dev)
> > @@ -339,6 +348,9 @@ static int serdev_drv_remove(struct device *dev)
> > 	const struct serdev_device_driver *sdrv = to_serdev_device_driver(dev->driver);
> > 	if (sdrv->remove)
> > 		sdrv->remove(to_serdev_device(dev));
> > +
> > +	dev_pm_domain_detach(dev, true);
> > +
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
>