Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: ehci-pci: Set PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:19:07PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> This driver often takes on the order of 8ms to start, but every little
> bit counts. It shouldn't have many cross-device dependencies to
> race with, nor racy access to shared state with other drivers, so this
> should be a relatively low risk change.
> 
> This driver was pinpointed as part of a survey of top slowest initcalls
> (i.e., are built in, and probing synchronously) on a lab of ChromeOS
> systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

However, I'm curious to know why this patch makes ehci-pci use 
PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS even when CONFIG_PM isn't set, whereas the 2/2 
patch makes xhci-pci use PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS only when CONFIG_PM 
is set.

Alan Stern

>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
> index 17f8b6ea0c35..4b148fe5e43b 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c
> @@ -411,11 +411,12 @@ static struct pci_driver ehci_pci_driver = {
>  	.remove =	ehci_pci_remove,
>  	.shutdown = 	usb_hcd_pci_shutdown,
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PM
>  	.driver =	{
> -		.pm =	&usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops
> -	},
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> +		.pm =	&usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops,
>  #endif
> +		.probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
> +	},
>  };
>  
>  static int __init ehci_pci_init(void)
> -- 
> 2.38.1.273.g43a17bfeac-goog
>