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Javier Martinez Canillas 28af109a57 driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices
With Device Trees (DT), the dependencies of the devices are defined in the
DT, then the drivers parse that information to lookup the needed resources
that have as dependencies.

Since drivers and devices are registered in a non-deterministic way, it is
possible that a device that is a dependency has not been registered yet by
the time that is looked up.

In this case the driver that requires this dependency cannot probe and has
to defer it. So the driver core adds it to a list of deferred devices that
is iterated again every time that a new driver is probed successfully.

For debugging purposes it may be useful to know what are the devices whose
probe function was deferred. Add a debugfs entry showing that information.

  $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred
  48070000.i2c:twl@48:bci
  musb-hdrc.0.auto
  omapdrm.0

This information could be obtained partially by enabling debugging, but it
means that the kernel log has to be parsed and the probe deferral balanced
with the successes. This can be error probe and has to be done in a ad-hoc
manner by everyone who needs to debug these kind of issues.

Since the information is already known by the kernel, just show it to make
it easier to debug.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-07-08 15:55:03 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 20:29:15 +08:00
block for-linus-20180623 2018-06-24 06:33:54 +08:00
certs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-06-24 06:31:54 +08:00
Documentation Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference 2018-07-07 17:45:25 +02:00
drivers driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices 2018-07-08 15:55:03 +02:00
firmware
fs sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates 2018-07-07 17:54:46 +02:00
include linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning 2018-07-07 17:51:26 +02:00
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kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 20:29:15 +08:00
lib kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy 2018-07-07 17:40:20 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-06-24 19:59:52 +08:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc2 2018-06-24 20:54:29 +08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.