Re: [RFC PATCH v1 11/38] KVM: arm64: CCA: register host tsm platform device

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:11:33 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 11:38:27AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:12:26 +0530
> > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >   
> > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 06:10:45PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > >    
> > > >> > +static struct platform_device cca_host_dev = {    
> > > >> Hmm. Greg is getting increasingly (and correctly in my view) grumpy with
> > > >> platform devices being registered with no underlying resources etc as glue
> > > >> layers.  Maybe some of that will come later.    
> > > >
> > > > Is faux_device a better choice? I admit to not knowing entirely what
> > > > it is for..  
> > 
> > I'll go with a cautious yes to faux_device. This case of a glue device
> > with no resources and no reason to be on a particular bus was definitely
> > the intent but I'm not 100% sure without trying it that we don't run
> > into any problems.
> > 
> > Not that many examples yet, but cpuidle-psci.c looks like a vaguely similar
> > case to this one.  
> > 
> > All it really does is move the location of the device and
> > smash together the device registration with probe/remove.
> > That means the device disappears if probe() fails, which is cleaner
> > in many ways than leaving a pointless stub behind.
> > 
> > Maybe it isn't appropriate it if is actually useful to rmmod/modprobe the
> > driver.   
> 
> Yeah, exactly. Can a TSM driver even be modular? If it has to be built
> in then there is no reason to do this:
> 
> > > The goal is to have tsm class device to be parented by the platform
> > > device.  
> 
> IMHO the only real point of that is to trigger module autoloading.
> 
> Otherwise the tsm core should accept NULL as the parent pointer during
> registration, it probably already does..

If you mean create a class device with no parent, that's also something
we are slowly trying to fix.  Reminds me that fixing up more perf devices
is still on my todo list.

Should be a child of something, so maybe that is a good reason for a
faux_device here if there is nothing else to use.

Jonathan

> 
> Jason