linux/drivers/base
Johan Hovold 4e75e1d7da driver core: add helper to reuse a device-tree node
Add a helper function to be used when reusing the device-tree node of
another device.

It is fairly common for drivers to reuse the device-tree node of a
parent (or other ancestor) device when creating class or bus devices
(e.g. gpio chips, i2c adapters, iio chips, spi masters, serdev, phys,
usb root hubs). But reusing a device-tree node may cause problems if the
new device is later probed as for example driver core would currently
attempt to reinitialise an already active associated pinmux
configuration.

Other potential issues include the platform-bus code unconditionally
dropping the device-tree node reference in its device destructor,
reinitialisation of other bus-managed resources such as clocks, and the
recently added DMA-setup in driver core.

Note that for most examples above this is currently not an issue as the
devices are never probed, but this is a problem for the USB bus which
has recently gained device-tree support. This was discovered and
worked-around in a rather ad-hoc fashion by commit dc5878abf4 ("usb:
core: move root hub's device node assignment after it is added to bus")
by not setting the of_node pointer until after the root-hub device has
been registered.

Instead we can allow devices to reuse a device-tree node by setting a
flag in their struct device that can be used by core, bus and driver
code to avoid resources from being over-allocated.

Note that the helper also grabs an extra reference to the device node,
which specifically balances the unconditional put in the platform-device
destructor.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-13 11:07:32 +02:00
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power Merge branches 'intel_pstate' and 'pm-sleep' 2017-06-09 01:25:16 +02:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branches 'regmap/topic/doc' and 'regmap/topic/rbtree' into regmap-next 2017-02-03 12:34:59 +01:00
test driver core: test_async: fix up typo found by 0-day 2016-11-29 22:06:42 +01:00
attribute_container.c attribute_container: Fix typo 2016-08-31 15:13:56 +02:00
base.h Revert "driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs" 2017-01-14 14:09:03 +01:00
bus.c driver core: bus: use to_subsys_private and to_device_private_bus 2016-02-09 17:25:27 -08:00
cacheinfo.c Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-22 09:25:45 -08:00
class.c driver core: class: add class_groups support 2016-11-29 21:12:12 +01:00
component.c Merge 4.5-rc4 into driver-core-next 2016-02-14 14:29:55 -08:00
container.c
core.c driver core: add helper to reuse a device-tree node 2017-06-13 11:07:32 +02:00
cpu.c CPU / PM: expose pm_qos_resume_latency for CPUs 2017-01-30 11:05:29 +01:00
dd.c of/acpi: Configure dma operations at probe time for platform/amba/pci bus devices 2017-04-20 16:31:06 +02:00
devcoredump.c driver core: devcoredump: convert to use class_groups 2016-11-29 21:12:12 +01:00
devres.c devres: add devm_alloc_percpu() 2016-11-15 22:34:25 -05:00
devtmpfs.c statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
dma-coherent.c drivers: dma-coherent: Move spinlock in dma_alloc_from_coherent() 2016-09-28 17:53:16 +02:00
dma-contiguous.c cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
dma-mapping.c IOMMU Updates for Linux v4.12 2017-05-09 15:15:47 -07:00
driver.c
firmware_class.c firmware: fix NULL pointer dereference in __fw_load_abort() 2017-01-27 09:19:48 +01:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c
init.c drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init 2015-05-26 19:55:56 -07:00
isa.c isa: Call isa_bus_init before dependent ISA bus drivers register 2016-06-17 20:47:11 -07:00
Kconfig Driver core patches for 4.10-rc1 2016-12-13 11:42:18 -08:00
Makefile driver-core: add test module for asynchronous probing 2016-11-10 17:28:16 +01:00
map.c
memory.c memory-hotplug: use dev_online for memhp_auto_online 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
module.c base: make module_create_drivers_dir race-free 2016-06-15 19:21:31 -07:00
node.c treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
pinctrl.c driver: base: pinctrl: return error from pinctrl_bind_pins() 2016-09-13 23:02:59 +02:00
platform-msi.c platform-msi: Make platform_msi_create_device_domain() ACPI aware 2017-04-07 10:52:19 +01:00
platform.c of: Add function for generating a DT modalias with a newline 2017-03-22 14:56:13 -05:00
property.c device property: Read strings using string array reading functions 2017-03-29 22:59:40 +02:00
soc.c base: soc: Allow early registration of a single SoC device 2017-03-29 21:43:26 +02:00
syscore.c
topology.c drivers base/topology: Convert to hotplug state machine 2016-11-09 23:45:29 +01:00
transport_class.c