Re: [PATCH] PCI: layerscape: async probe by default
From: Frank Li
Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 12:15:55 EST
On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 03:48:09PM +0200, Vincent Jardin via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@xxxxxxx>
>
> dw_pcie_wait_for_link() polls for up to
> PCIE_LINK_WAIT_MAX_RETRIES x PCIE_LINK_WAIT_SLEEP_MS (10 x 90 ms)
> per controller.
>
> The controllers are probed one after the other, so, it leads to slow
> boot time.
>
> On an LX2160A board with 4 enabled controllers and no link on any
> of them, ls_pcie_driver_init took almost 4s.
>
> Probing the 4 in parallel allows to have it down to 1s.
>
> The controllers are independent, other DWC based drivers are already
> using async probing such as qcom, imx6, s32g, rcar-gen4 or stm32.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@xxxxxxx>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape.c
> index 14d6ac4fc53f..7f37a0537159 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-layerscape.c
> @@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ static struct platform_driver ls_pcie_driver = {
> .of_match_table = ls_pcie_of_match,
> .suppress_bind_attrs = true,
> .pm = &ls_pcie_pm_ops,
> + .probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
> },
> };
> module_platform_driver(ls_pcie_driver);
>
> ---
> base-commit: 94e8d4e94266bb9737a5963810a3f9365cb2f39d
> change-id: 20260928-for-upstream-pci-layerscape-async-probe-084cae5d0907
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Vincent Jardin <vjardin@xxxxxxx>
>
>
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