Re: [PATCH v3] driver core: Add CONFIG_FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Mar 17 2023 - 14:11:33 EST


On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 10:19:42AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Add a build time equivalent of fw_devlink.sync_state=timeout so that
> board specific kernels could enable it and not have to deal with setting
> or cluttering the kernel commandline.
>
> Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
> drivers/base/core.c | 5 +++++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> index 6f04b831a5c0..2b8fd6bb7da0 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> @@ -230,4 +230,16 @@ config GENERIC_ARCH_NUMA
> Enable support for generic NUMA implementation. Currently, RISC-V
> and ARM64 use it.
>
> +config FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT
> + bool "sync_state() behavior defaults to timeout instead of strict"
> + help
> + This is build time equivalent of adding kernel command line parameter
> + "fw_devlink.sync_state=timeout". Give up waiting on consumers and
> + call sync_state() on any devices that haven't yet received their
> + sync_state() calls after deferred_probe_timeout has expired or by
> + late_initcall() if !CONFIG_MODULES. You should almost always want to
> + select N here unless you have already successfully tested with the
> + command line option on every system/board your kernel is expected to
> + work on.
> +
> endmenu
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index fe74a786e2c3..adc81871829f 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -1672,7 +1672,12 @@ early_param("fw_devlink.strict", fw_devlink_strict_setup);
> #define FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_STRICT 0
> #define FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT 1
>
> +#ifndef CONFIG_FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT
> static int fw_devlink_sync_state;
> +#else
> +static int fw_devlink_sync_state = FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT;
> +#endif
> +
> static int __init fw_devlink_sync_state_setup(char *arg)
> {
> if (!arg)
> --
> 2.40.0.rc2.332.ga46443480c-goog
>

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