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authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>2021-03-02 13:11:30 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-03-23 14:58:10 +0100
commitf2db85b64f0af1410ccb8ebcc9d7fa38e99feee9 (patch)
tree113e0dc325b8c52029fcc9c8e043f35c3cd841c4 /include/linux/device.h
parentdevtmpfs: actually reclaim some init memory (diff)
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driver core: Avoid pointless deferred probe attempts
There's no point in adding a device to the deferred probe list if we know for sure that it doesn't have a matching driver. So, check if a device can match with a driver before adding it to the deferred probe list. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302211133.2244281-2-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index a8ce0dc3b758..38a2071cf776 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ struct dev_links_info {
* @state_synced: The hardware state of this device has been synced to match
* the software state of this device by calling the driver/bus
* sync_state() callback.
+ * @can_match: The device has matched with a driver at least once or it is in
+ * a bus (like AMBA) which can't check for matching drivers until
+ * other devices probe successfully.
* @dma_coherent: this particular device is dma coherent, even if the
* architecture supports non-coherent devices.
* @dma_ops_bypass: If set to %true then the dma_ops are bypassed for the
@@ -545,6 +548,7 @@ struct device {
bool offline:1;
bool of_node_reused:1;
bool state_synced:1;
+ bool can_match:1;
#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_DEVICE) || \
defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_CPU) || \
defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_CPU_ALL)