linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/base
Rafael J. Wysocki 72175d4ea4 driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links
Even though stateful device links are managed by the driver core in
principle, their creators are allowed and sometimes even expected
to drop references to them via device_link_del() or
device_link_remove(), but that doesn't really play well with the
"persistent" link concept.

If "persistent" managed device links are created from driver
probe callbacks, device_link_add() called to do that will take a
new reference on the link each time the callback runs and those
references will never be dropped, which kind of isn't nice.

This issues arises because of the link reference counting carried
out by device_link_add() for existing links, but that is only done to
avoid deleting device links that may still be necessary, which
shouldn't be a concern for managed (stateful) links.  These device
links are managed by the driver core and whoever creates one of them
will need it at least as long as until the consumer driver is detached
from its device and deleting it may be left to the driver core just
fine.

For this reason, rework device_link_add() to apply the reference
counting to stateless links only and make device_link_del() and
device_link_remove() drop references to stateless links only too.
After this change, if called to add a stateful device link for
a consumer-supplier pair for which a stateful device link is
present already, device_link_add() will return the existing link
without incrementing its reference counter.  Accordingly,
device_link_del() and device_link_remove() will WARN() and do
nothing when called to drop a reference to a stateful link.  Thus,
effectively, all stateful device links will be owned by the driver
core.

In addition, clean up the handling of the link management flags,
DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER and DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER, so that
(a) they are never set at the same time and (b) if device_link_add()
is called for a consumer-supplier pair with an existing stateful link
between them, the flags of that link will be combined with the flags
passed to device_link_add() to ensure that the life time of the link
is sufficient for all of the callers of device_link_add() for the
same consumer-supplier pair.

Update the device_link_add() kerneldoc comment to reflect the
above changes.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-01 10:04:08 +01:00
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firmware_loader firmware_loader: move firmware/ to drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/ 2019-01-22 10:23:18 +01:00
power driver core: Do not call rpm_put_suppliers() in pm_runtime_drop_link() 2019-02-01 10:04:08 +01:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'regmap/topic/irq' into regmap-next 2018-12-19 18:38:33 +00:00
test driver core: Rewrite test_async_driver_probe to cover serialization and NUMA affinity 2019-01-31 14:20:54 +01:00
arch_topology.c sched/topology, drivers/base/arch_topology: Rebuild the sched_domain hierarchy when capacities change 2018-09-10 11:05:47 +02:00
attribute_container.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
base.h driver core: Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver 2019-01-31 14:20:53 +01:00
bus.c driver core: Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver 2019-01-31 14:20:53 +01:00
cacheinfo.c drivers: base: cacheinfo: Do not populate sysfs for unknown cache types 2018-10-04 23:02:17 +02:00
class.c driver core: move device->knode_class to device_private 2019-01-18 16:55:48 +01:00
component.c component: convert to DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE 2018-12-20 16:33:18 +01:00
container.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
core.c driver core: Make driver core own stateful device links 2019-02-01 10:04:08 +01:00
cpu.c drivers: base: Use __printf markup to silence compiler 2019-01-31 19:28:40 +01:00
dd.c driver core: Attach devices on CPU local to device node 2019-01-31 14:20:54 +01:00
devcon.c drivers: base: Unified device connection lookup 2018-03-22 13:10:29 +01:00
devcoredump.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
devres.c devres: Align data[] to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN 2018-11-11 11:40:04 -08:00
devtmpfs.c vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled 2018-12-20 16:32:56 +00:00
driver.c driver-core: return EINVAL error instead of BUG_ON() 2018-05-25 18:18:45 +02:00
firmware.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
hypervisor.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
init.c base: fix order of OF initialization 2018-07-07 17:54:29 +02:00
isa.c Merge 4.15-rc3 into driver-core-next 2017-12-11 08:50:05 +01:00
Kconfig firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file 2018-05-14 16:43:10 +02:00
Makefile drivers: base: Introducing software nodes to the firmware node framework 2018-11-26 18:19:11 +01:00
map.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
memory.c Driver core patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:44:29 -08:00
module.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
node.c mm, proc: add KReclaimable to /proc/meminfo 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
pinctrl.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
platform-msi.c platform-msi: Free descriptors in platform_msi_domain_free() 2018-12-13 09:35:31 +00:00
platform.c drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak 2019-01-04 13:13:48 -08:00
property.c device property: fix fwnode_graph_get_next_endpoint() documentation 2018-12-18 23:39:45 +01:00
soc.c base: soc: use put_device() instead of kfree() 2018-03-15 14:37:03 +01:00
swnode.c drivers: base: swnode: check if swnode is NULL before dereferencing it 2018-12-26 10:50:36 +01:00
syscore.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
topology.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00
transport_class.c driver core: Remove redundant license text 2017-12-07 18:36:44 +01:00