Re: [PATCH v2 05/11] driver core: fw_devlink: Add DL_FLAG_CYCLE support to device links

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 04:11:32PM -0800, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> fw_devlink uses DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device link flag for two
> purposes:
> 
> 1. To allow a parent device to proxy its child device's dependency on a
>    supplier so that the supplier doesn't get its sync_state() callback
>    before the child device/consumer can be added and probed. In this
>    usage scenario, we need to ignore cycles for ensure correctness of
>    sync_state() callbacks.
> 
> 2. When there are dependency cycles in firmware, we don't know which of
>    those dependencies are valid. So, we have to ignore them all wrt
>    probe ordering while still making sure the sync_state() callbacks
>    come correctly.
> 
> However, when detecting dependency cycles, there can be multiple
> dependency cycles between two devices that we need to detect. For
> example:
> 
> A -> B -> A and A -> C -> B -> A.
> 
> To detect multiple cycles correct, we need to be able to differentiate
> DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links used for (1) vs (2) above.
> 
> To allow this differentiation, add a DL_FLAG_CYCLE that can be use to
> mark use case (2). We can then use the DL_FLAG_CYCLE to decide which
> DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY device links to follow when looking for
> dependency cycles.

...

> +static inline bool device_link_flag_is_sync_state_only(u32 flags)
> +{
> +	return (flags & ~(DL_FLAG_INFERRED | DL_FLAG_CYCLE))
> +		== (DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | DL_FLAG_MANAGED);

Weird indentation, why not

	return (flags & ~(DL_FLAG_INFERRED | DL_FLAG_CYCLE)) ==
	       (DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | DL_FLAG_MANAGED);

?

> +}

...

>  			       DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER | \
>  			       DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER  | \
>  			       DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY | \
> -			       DL_FLAG_INFERRED)
> +			       DL_FLAG_INFERRED | \
> +			       DL_FLAG_CYCLE)

You can make less churn by squeezing the new one above the last one.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko