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Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:18:19AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 05:19:17PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> > The variable p is a data structure which is used by the driver core
>> > internally and it is not expected that busses will be directly accessing
>> > these driver core internal only data.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Reference of Greg's comment about it at:
>> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/5/171
>> >
>> >  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 6 ++++--
>> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> > index 2949ab3..2f31fb5 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> > @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static struct device_type i2c_client_type;
>> >  static int i2c_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, struct i2c_driver *driver);
>> >
>> >  static struct static_key i2c_trace_msg = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
>> > +static bool is_registered;
>> >
>> >  void i2c_transfer_trace_reg(void)
>> >  {
>> > @@ -1529,7 +1530,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>> >     int res = 0;
>> >
>> >     /* Can't register until after driver model init */
>> > -   if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!i2c_bus_type.p))) {
>> > +   if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!is_registered))) {
>> >             res = -EAGAIN;
>> >             goto out_list;
>> >     }
>> > @@ -1926,7 +1927,7 @@ int i2c_register_driver(struct module *owner, struct i2c_driver *driver)
>> >     int res;
>> >
>> >     /* Can't register until after driver model init */
>> > -   if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!i2c_bus_type.p)))
>> > +   if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!is_registered)))
>> >             return -EAGAIN;
>> >
>> >     /* add the driver to the list of i2c drivers in the driver core */
>> > @@ -2118,6 +2119,7 @@ static int __init i2c_init(void)
>> >     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC))
>> >             WARN_ON(of_reconfig_notifier_register(&i2c_of_notifier));
>> >
>> > +   is_registered = true;
>> >     return 0;
>> >
>> >  class_err:
>>
>> This doesn't work. I see a number of these WARN_ON()s trigger and I
>> think the reason is that i2c_init() always fails now. The cause seems to
>> be that i2c_init() calls i2c_add_driver(&dummy_driver), which will now
>> always fail, because is_register is set to true *after* that call. There
>> is no way I see I2C working at all after this patch.

Exactly, and this is resulting in recursive failures on dev platform ending up
in boot failure

>
> FWIW, the below on top of your patch seems to fix things for me.
>

I too came up with same patch, good that I searched before posting it out.
FWIW, it fixes the recursive fault at boot on my arm64 platform.

Regards,
Sudeep

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[PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 12:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-07 18:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 18:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2016-03-12 16:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 10:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2016-03-14 10:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 10:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 15:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 10:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core: do not use bus internal data Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> - 2016-03-14 13:20 +0100

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