Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Fix suspend/resume order issue with deferred probe

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Saravana,

Thanks for your patch!

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:24 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Under the following conditions:
> - driver A is built in and can probe device-A
> - driver B is a module and can probe device-B

I think this is not correct: in my case driver B is builtin, too.

> - device-A is supplier of device-B
>
> Without this patch:
> 1. device-A is added.
> 2. device-B is added.
> 3. dpm_list is now [device-A, device-B].
> 4. driver-A defers probe of device-A.
> 5. deferred probe of device-A is reattempted

I think this is misleading: in my case driver-A did not defer the probe
of device-A, and driver-A never returned -EPROBE_DEFER.
Probing was merely paused, due to fw_devlink_pause();

> 6. device-A is moved to end of dpm_list.
> 6. dpm_list is now [device-B, device-A].
> 7. driver-B is loaded and probes device-B.
> 8. dpm_list stays as [device-B, device-A].
>
> Suspend (which goes in the reverse order of dpm_list) fails because
> device-A (supplier) is suspended before device-B (consumer).
>
> With this patch:
> 1. device-A is added.
> 2. device-B is added.
> 3. dpm_list is now [device-A, device-B].
> 4. driver-A defers probe of device-A.
> 5. deferred probe of device-A is reattempted later.
> 6. dpm_list is now [device-B, device-A].
> 7. driver-B is loaded and probes device-B.
> 8. dpm_list is now [device-A, device-B].
>
> Suspend works because device-B (consumer) is suspended before device-A
> (supplier).
>
> Fixes: 494fd7b7ad10 ("PM / core: fix deferred probe breaking suspend resume order")
> Fixes: 716a7a259690 ("driver core: fw_devlink: Add support for batching fwnode parsing")
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>

This fixes wake-up by GPIO key on r8a7740/armadillo and sh73a0/kzm9g.
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ static void deferred_probe_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
>                  * probe makes that very unsafe.
>                  */
>                 device_pm_move_to_tail(dev);
> +               /* Greg/Rafael: SHOULD I DELETE THIS? ^^ I think I should, but
> +                * I'm worried if it'll have some unintended consequeneces. */

Works fine for me with the call to device_pm_move_to_tail() removed, too
(at least on the two boards that showed the issue before).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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