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[RESEND,1/2] power_supply: Register cooling device outside of probe

Message ID 20220531183054.6476-1-quic_manafm@quicinc.com
State New
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Series [RESEND,1/2] power_supply: Register cooling device outside of probe | expand

Commit Message

Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi May 31, 2022, 6:30 p.m. UTC
Registering the cooling device from the probe can result in the
execution of get_property() function before it gets initialized.

To avoid this, register the cooling device from a workqueue
instead of registering in the probe.

Signed-off-by: Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi <quic_manafm@quicinc.com>
---
 drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Sebastian Reichel Feb. 28, 2023, 12:23 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi,

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy wrote:
> On 6/9/22 3:12 PM, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 12:00:53AM +0530, Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi wrote:
> >> Registering the cooling device from the probe can result in the
> >> execution of get_property() function before it gets initialized.
> >>
> >> To avoid this, register the cooling device from a workqueue
> >> instead of registering in the probe.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Manaf Meethalavalappu Pallikunhi <quic_manafm@quicinc.com>
> >> ---
> > This removes error handling from the psy_register_cooler() call, so
> > it introduces a new potential problem. If power_supply_get_property()
> > is called to early -EAGAIN is returned. So can you elaborate the problem
> > that you are seeing with the current code?
> >
> > -- Sebastian
> 
> When the device boots up with all the vendor modules getting loaded,           
> here is what we're seeing when booting up with 6.1.11 recently. First          
> log is printed with adding a pr_err() in __power_supply_register().                 
>                                                                                
> [    7.008938][  T682] power_supply battery: psy_register_cooler failed, rc=-11
> [    7.030941][  T682] qti_battery_charger: probe of qcom,battery_charger failed with error -11
>                                                                                
> Here, our downstream qti_battery_charger driver exposes the following          
> power supply properties POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CHARGE_CONTROL_LIMIT and             
> POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CHARGE_CONTROL_LIMIT_MAX under a power supply device.        
>                                                                                
> This is happening because of the following call sequence,                      
>                                                                                
> battery_chg_probe() ->                                                         
>   power_supply_register() ->                                                   
>     psy_register_cooler() ->                                                   
>       thermal_cooling_device_register() ->                                     
>         cdev->ops->get_max_state() ->                                          
>           ps_get_max_charge_cntl_limit() ->                                    
>             power_supply_get_property()                                        
>                                                                                
> ends up calling power_supply_get_property() to read CHARGE_CONTROL_LIMIT       
> property.                                                                      
>                                                                                
> However, it returns -EAGAIN because psy->initialized is set to true            
> later after psy_register_cooler() succeeds. So, this ends up in a              
> driver probe failure forever.

This should be solved in 6.3:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c?id=c85c191694cb1cf290b11059b3d2de8a2732ffd0

-- Sebastian
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
index 385814a14a0a..74623c4977db 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/power_supply_core.c
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@  void power_supply_changed(struct power_supply *psy)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_changed);
 
+static int psy_register_cooler(struct power_supply *psy);
 /*
  * Notify that power supply was registered after parent finished the probing.
  *
@@ -139,6 +140,8 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_changed);
  * calling power_supply_changed() directly from power_supply_register()
  * would lead to execution of get_property() function provided by the driver
  * too early - before the probe ends.
+ * Also, registering cooling device from the probe will execute the
+ * get_property() function. So register the cooling device after the probe.
  *
  * Avoid that by waiting on parent's mutex.
  */
@@ -156,6 +159,7 @@  static void power_supply_deferred_register_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	}
 
 	power_supply_changed(psy);
+	psy_register_cooler(psy);
 
 	if (psy->dev.parent)
 		mutex_unlock(&psy->dev.parent->mutex);
@@ -1261,10 +1265,6 @@  __power_supply_register(struct device *parent,
 	if (rc)
 		goto register_thermal_failed;
 
-	rc = psy_register_cooler(psy);
-	if (rc)
-		goto register_cooler_failed;
-
 	rc = power_supply_create_triggers(psy);
 	if (rc)
 		goto create_triggers_failed;
@@ -1294,8 +1294,6 @@  __power_supply_register(struct device *parent,
 add_hwmon_sysfs_failed:
 	power_supply_remove_triggers(psy);
 create_triggers_failed:
-	psy_unregister_cooler(psy);
-register_cooler_failed:
 	psy_unregister_thermal(psy);
 register_thermal_failed:
 	device_del(dev);