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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 6/6] PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:49 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 9 July 2018 at 17:41, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > All PM domain drivers must be built-in (at least those using DT), so
> > there is no point deferring probe after initcalls are done. Continuing
> > to defer probe may prevent booting successfully even if managing PM
> > domains is not required. This can happen if the user failed to enable
> > the driver or if power-domains are added to a platform's DT, but there
> > is not yet a driver (e.g. a new DTB with an old kernel).
> >
> > Call the driver core function driver_deferred_probe_check_init_done()
> > instead of just returning -EPROBE_DEFER to stop deferring probe when
> > initcalls are done.
> >
> > Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> > Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > v4:
> > - Add Rafael's ack
> >
> > v3:
> > - Update to new function name
> >
> > drivers/base/power/domain.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/domain.c b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
> > index 4925af5c4cf0..8c12213875c6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/power/domain.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/power/domain.c
> > @@ -2253,7 +2253,7 @@ static int __genpd_dev_pm_attach(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
> > mutex_unlock(&gpd_list_lock);
> > dev_dbg(dev, "%s() failed to find PM domain: %ld\n",
> > __func__, PTR_ERR(pd));
> > - return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > + return driver_deferred_probe_check_state(dev);
> > }
>
> This isn't the only error path where -EPROBE_DEFER may be returned
> during attach in genpd.

Yes, but I think this is the only place you can fail to get the PD
device from DT. The case we care about is properties exist in the DT,
but no driver exists.

What would cause deferring in the latter cases?

Rob

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