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From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To:     Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 26/26] drm/bridge: establish a link between the bridge
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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:37:47AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2018-05-10 10:10, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > On 04.05.2018 15:52, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >> If the bridge supplier is unbound, this will bring the bridge consumer
> >> down along with the bridge. Thus, there will no longer linger any
> >> dangling pointers from the bridge consumer (the drm_device) to some
> >> non-existent bridge supplier.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> >>  include/drm/drm_bridge.h     |  2 ++
> >>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> >> index 78d186b6831b..0259f0a3ff27 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bridge.c
> >> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
> >>  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> >>  
> >>  #include <drm/drm_bridge.h>
> >> +#include <drm/drm_device.h>
> >>  #include <drm/drm_encoder.h>
> >>  
> >>  #include "drm_crtc_internal.h"
> >> @@ -127,12 +128,25 @@ int drm_bridge_attach(struct drm_encoder *encoder, struct drm_bridge *bridge,
> >>  	if (bridge->dev)
> >>  		return -EBUSY;
> >>  
> >> +	if (encoder->dev->dev != bridge->odev) {
> > 
> > I wonder why device_link_add does not handle this case (self dependency)
> > silently as noop, as it seems to be a correct behavior.
> 
> It's kind-of a silly corner-case though, so perfectly understandable
> that it isn't handled.
> 
> >> +		bridge->link = device_link_add(encoder->dev->dev,
> >> +					       bridge->odev, 0);
> >> +		if (!bridge->link) {
> >> +			dev_err(bridge->odev, "failed to link bridge to %s\n",
> >> +				dev_name(encoder->dev->dev));
> >> +			return -EINVAL;
> >> +		}
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >>  	bridge->dev = encoder->dev;
> >>  	bridge->encoder = encoder;
> >>  
> >>  	if (bridge->funcs->attach) {
> >>  		ret = bridge->funcs->attach(bridge);
> >>  		if (ret < 0) {
> >> +			if (bridge->link)
> >> +				device_link_del(bridge->link);
> >> +			bridge->link = NULL;
> >>  			bridge->dev = NULL;
> >>  			bridge->encoder = NULL;
> >>  			return ret;
> >> @@ -159,6 +173,10 @@ void drm_bridge_detach(struct drm_bridge *bridge)
> >>  	if (bridge->funcs->detach)
> >>  		bridge->funcs->detach(bridge);
> >>  
> >> +	if (bridge->link)
> >> +		device_link_del(bridge->link);
> >> +	bridge->link = NULL;
> >> +
> >>  	bridge->dev = NULL;
> >>  }
> >>  
> >> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> >> index b656e505d11e..804189c63a4c 100644
> >> --- a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> >> +++ b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
> >> @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ struct drm_bridge_timings {
> >>   * @list: to keep track of all added bridges
> >>   * @timings: the timing specification for the bridge, if any (may
> >>   * be NULL)
> >> + * @link: drm consumer <-> bridge supplier
> > 
> > Nitpick: "<->" suggests symmetry, maybe "device link from drm consumer
> > to the bridge" would be better.
> 
> I meant "<->" to indicate that the link is bidirectional, not that the
> relationship is in any way symmetric. I wasn't aware of any implication
> of a symmetric relationship when using "<->", do you have a reference?
> But I guess the different arrow notations in math are somewhat overloaded
> and that someone at some point must have used "<->" to indicate a
> symmetric relationship...

Yeah I agree with Andrzej here, for me <-> implies a symmetric
relationship. Spelling it out like Andrzej suggested sounds like the
better idea.
-Daniel

> 
> > Anyway:
> > Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> > ?--
> > Regards
> > Andrzej
> > 
> >>   * @funcs: control functions
> >>   * @driver_private: pointer to the bridge driver's internal context
> >>   */
> >> @@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ struct drm_bridge {
> >>  	struct drm_bridge *next;
> >>  	struct list_head list;
> >>  	const struct drm_bridge_timings *timings;
> >> +	struct device_link *link;
> >>  
> >>  	const struct drm_bridge_funcs *funcs;
> >>  	void *driver_private;
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch