Re: [PATCH] perf/smmuv3: Add platform id table for module auto loading

[Liang Li]

Hi Yicong,

Thanks for your reply,

On 2023-08-09 14:31, Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Barry, Liang,
> 
> On 2023/8/9 13:47, Barry Song wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:01 PM Liang Li <liliang6@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2023-08-07 20:22, Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> On ACPI based system the device is probed by the name directly. If the
> >>> driver is configured as module it can only be loaded manually. Add the
> >>> platform id table as well as the module alias then the driver will be
> >>> loaded automatically by the udev or others once the device added.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Please consider revise the long log to clearly express the purpose of the
> >> changes in this patch:
> >>
> >> - What's the exact issue the patch is addressing
> >> - Why the changes in this patch can fix the issue or make something working
> >> - Consider impact of the changes introduced by this patch
> >>
> >> These info may help reviewers and maintainers .. and yourself on code merge.
> > 
> > years ago, i found a good doc regarding this,
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Modalias
> > 
> > guess it is because /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias fails to contain smmu
> > driver without the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, isn't it, yicong？
> 
> Yes I think it's the reason. I didn't find summary in kernel docs for the modalias
> as well as the uevent mechanism. Arch wiki has a well illustration for the modalias
> and suse[1] describes how this is used by the udev for module auto loading.
> 
> For my case I'm using a ACPI based arm64 server and after booting the arm_smmuv3_pmu.ko
> is not auto loaded by the udevd since we aren't providing this information. In order
> to support this we need to provide this MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() when the smmu pmu added
> as a platform device, then the userspace udev can know which module to load after the
> device is added.
>

Then what's the purpose of the added '.id_table = ...' line in the previous
patch ?
<We lost the patch context in this thread.>

Based on above clarification, the updated DEVICE_TABLE would update modalias
as expected, right ?

> [1] https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/html/SLES-all/cha-udev.html#sec-udev-drivers
> 
> Thanks.

Regards.
Liang Li