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authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>2022-05-03 17:53:43 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-05-19 19:28:24 +0200
commitf79f662e4cd56f6fd3436dd68057d2ec1f7d2025 (patch)
tree777d1eb60a26ebdd5700bc20b3094fc2eec77b24
parentdriver core: location: Check for allocations failure (diff)
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driver core: Add "*" wildcard support to driver_async_probe cmdline param
There's currently no way to use driver_async_probe kernel cmdline param to enable default async probe for all drivers. So, add support for "*" to match with all driver names. When "*" is used, all other drivers listed in driver_async_probe are drivers that will NOT match the "*". For example: * driver_async_probe=drvA,drvB,drvC drvA, drvB and drvC do asynchronous probing. * driver_async_probe=* All drivers do asynchronous probing except those that have set PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS flag. * driver_async_probe=*,drvA,drvB,drvC All drivers do asynchronous probing except drvA, drvB, drvC and those that have set PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS flag. Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220504005344.117803-1-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt5
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/dd.c9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3f1cc5e317ed..c7513d01df82 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1076,7 +1076,10 @@
driver later using sysfs.
driver_async_probe= [KNL]
- List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
+ List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
+ matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
+ rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
+ match the *.
Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 39c70fc0f4cb..810f45c731aa 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static bool initcalls_done;
/* Save the async probe drivers' name from kernel cmdline */
#define ASYNC_DRV_NAMES_MAX_LEN 256
static char async_probe_drv_names[ASYNC_DRV_NAMES_MAX_LEN];
+static bool async_probe_default;
/*
* In some cases, like suspend to RAM or hibernation, It might be reasonable
@@ -797,7 +798,11 @@ static int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *drv, struct device *dev)
static inline bool cmdline_requested_async_probing(const char *drv_name)
{
- return parse_option_str(async_probe_drv_names, drv_name);
+ bool async_drv;
+
+ async_drv = parse_option_str(async_probe_drv_names, drv_name);
+
+ return (async_probe_default != async_drv);
}
/* The option format is "driver_async_probe=drv_name1,drv_name2,..." */
@@ -807,6 +812,8 @@ static int __init save_async_options(char *buf)
pr_warn("Too long list of driver names for 'driver_async_probe'!\n");
strlcpy(async_probe_drv_names, buf, ASYNC_DRV_NAMES_MAX_LEN);
+ async_probe_default = parse_option_str(async_probe_drv_names, "*");
+
return 1;
}
__setup("driver_async_probe=", save_async_options);