Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] PCI: Drop duplicated tracking of a pci_dev's bound driver

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 04:24:52PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 08:46:23AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 06:42:34PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> > > I looked at all the bus_type.probe() methods, it looks like pci_dev is
> > > not the only offender here.  At least the following also have a driver
> > > pointer in the device struct:
> > > 
> > >   parisc_device.driver
> > >   acpi_device.driver
> > >   dio_dev.driver
> > >   hid_device.driver
> > >   pci_dev.driver
> > >   pnp_dev.driver
> > >   rio_dev.driver
> > >   zorro_dev.driver
> > 
> > Right, when I converted zorro_dev it was pointed out that the code was
> > copied from pci and the latter has the same construct. :-)
> > See
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730191035.1455248-5-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > for the patch, I don't find where pci was pointed out, maybe it was on
> > irc only.
> 
> Oh, thanks!  I looked to see if you'd done something similar
> elsewhere, but I missed this one.
> 
> > > Looking through the places that care about pci_dev.driver (the ones
> > > updated by patch 5/6), many of them are ... a little dubious to begin
> > > with.  A few need the "struct pci_error_handlers *err_handler"
> > > pointer, so that's probably legitimate.  But many just need a name,
> > > and should probably be using dev_driver_string() instead.
> > 
> > Yeah, I considered adding a function to get the driver name from a
> > pci_dev and a function to get the error handlers. Maybe it's an idea to
> > introduce these two and then use to_pci_driver(pdev->dev.driver) for the
> > few remaining users? Maybe doing that on top of my current series makes
> > sense to have a clean switch from pdev->driver to pdev->dev.driver?!
> 
> I'd propose using dev_driver_string() for these places:
> 
>   eeh_driver_name() (could change callers to use dev_driver_string())
>   bcma_host_pci_probe()
>   qm_alloc_uacce()
>   hns3_get_drvinfo()
>   prestera_pci_probe()
>   mlxsw_pci_probe()
>   nfp_get_drvinfo()
>   ssb_pcihost_probe()

So the idea is:

	PCI: Simplify pci_device_remove()
	PCI: Drop useless check from pci_device_probe()
	xen/pci: Drop some checks that are always true

are kept as is as preparation. (Do you want to take them from this v2,
or should I include them again in v3?)

Then convert the list of functions above to use dev_driver_string() in a
4th patch.

> The use in mpt_device_driver_register() looks unnecessary: it's only
> to get a struct pci_device_id *, which is passed to ->probe()
> functions that don't need it.

This is patch #5.

> The use in adf_enable_aer() looks wrong: it sets the err_handler
> pointer in one of the adf_driver structs.  I think those structs
> should be basically immutable, and the drivers that call
> adf_enable_aer() from their .probe() methods should set
> ".err_handler = &adf_err_handler" in their static adf_driver
> definitions instead.

I don't understand that one without some research, probably this yields
at least one patch.

> I think that basically leaves these:
> 
>   uncore_pci_probe()     # .id_table, custom driver "registration"
>   match_id()             # .id_table, arch/x86/kernel/probe_roms.c
>   xhci_pci_quirks()      # .id_table
>   pci_error_handlers()   # roll-your-own AER handling, drivers/misc/cxl/guest.c
> 
> I think it would be fine to use to_pci_driver(pdev->dev.driver) for
> these few.

Converting these will be patch 7 then and patch 8 can then drop the
duplicated handling.

Sounds reasonable?

Best regards
Uwe

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