From: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@kernel.org>,
Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>,
Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>,
Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Allan Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microchip.com>,
Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>,
Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@microchip.com>,
Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@microchip.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH v9 3/3] i2c: {mux,atr}: Create missing devlink between mux/atr and adapter physical device
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 14:53:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104135324.492692-4-herve.codina@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104135324.492692-1-herve.codina@bootlin.com>
When removing an i2c controller device handling an i2c bus where an i2c
mux is connected to, the removal process hangs and is stuck in the
wait_completion() call done in i2c_del_adapter().
The i2c_del_adapter() tries to removed the i2c adapter related to the
i2c controller device and the wait_completion() is waiting for the i2c
adapter device release. This release is performed when the device is no
more used (i.e. refcount reaches zero).
When an i2c mux (and/or atr) is involved in an i2c path, the struct dev
topology is the following:
+----------------+ +-------------------+
| i2c controller | | i2c mux/atr |
| device | | device |
| ^ | | |
| | | | |
| dev's parent | | |
| | | | |
| i2c adapter | | i2c adapter chanX |
| device <---- dev's parent ------ device |
| (no driver) | | (no driver) |
+----------------+ +-------------------+
When an i2c mux/atr device creates an i2c adapter for its downstream
channel, a reference is taken to its adapter dev's parent. This parent
is the i2c mux/atr upstream adapter device.
No relationship exists between the i2c mux/atr device itself and the i2c
controller device (physical device) in order to have the i2c mux/atr
device calling i2c_del_adapter() to remove its downstream adapters and so,
release references taken to the upstream adapter.
This consumer/supplier relationship is typically a devlink relationship.
Also, i2c muxes/atrs can be chained and so, the upstream adapter can be
supplied by either an i2c controller device or an other i2c mux/atr
device.
In order to get the physical device of the adapter a mux/atr is
connected to, rely on the newly introduced i2c_adapter_get_physdev() and
create the missing devlink between the i2c mux/atr device and the
physical device of the adapter the mux/atr is connected to.
With that done, the i2c mux/atr device is removed before the device
handling the upstream i2c adapter (i2c controller device or i2c mux/atr
device). All references are released and the i2c_del_adapter() call
performed by driver handling the upstream adapter device is not blocking
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c
index a591d39050e7..94ff543d4f8e 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-atr.c
@@ -788,9 +788,11 @@ int i2c_atr_add_adapter(struct i2c_atr *atr, struct i2c_atr_adap_desc *desc)
struct fwnode_handle *bus_handle = desc->bus_handle;
struct i2c_adapter *parent = atr->parent;
char symlink_name[ATR_MAX_SYMLINK_LEN];
+ struct device *parent_physdev;
struct device *dev = atr->dev;
u32 chan_id = desc->chan_id;
struct i2c_atr_chan *chan;
+ struct device_link *dl;
int ret, idx;
if (chan_id >= atr->max_adapters) {
@@ -866,6 +868,29 @@ int i2c_atr_add_adapter(struct i2c_atr *atr, struct i2c_atr_adap_desc *desc)
atr->adapter[chan_id] = &chan->adap;
+ /*
+ * There is no relationship set between the atr device and the physical
+ * device handling the parent adapter. Create this missing relationship
+ * in order to remove the i2c atr device (consumer) and so the dowstream
+ * channel adapters before removing the physical device (supplier) which
+ * handles the i2c atr upstream adapter.
+ */
+ parent_physdev = i2c_get_adapter_physdev(parent);
+ if (!parent_physdev) {
+ dev_err(dev, "failed to get the parent physical device\n");
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto err_free_alias_pool;
+ }
+ dl = device_link_add(dev, parent_physdev, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER);
+ if (!dl) {
+ dev_err(dev, "failed to create device link to %s\n",
+ dev_name(parent_physdev));
+ put_device(parent_physdev);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_free_alias_pool;
+ }
+ put_device(parent_physdev);
+
ret = i2c_add_adapter(&chan->adap);
if (ret) {
atr->adapter[chan_id] = NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
index c1836114ef56..0cfb581b4ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ int i2c_mux_add_adapter(struct i2c_mux_core *muxc,
u32 force_nr, u32 chan_id)
{
struct i2c_adapter *parent = muxc->parent;
+ struct device *parent_physdev;
struct i2c_mux_priv *priv;
+ struct device_link *dl;
char symlink_name[20];
int ret;
@@ -382,6 +384,29 @@ int i2c_mux_add_adapter(struct i2c_mux_core *muxc,
ACPI_COMPANION(muxc->dev),
chan_id);
+ /*
+ * There is no relationship set between the mux device and the physical
+ * device handling the parent adapter. Create this missing relationship
+ * in order to remove the i2c mux device (consumer) and so the dowstream
+ * channel adapters before removing the physical device (supplier) which
+ * handles the i2c mux upstream adapter.
+ */
+ parent_physdev = i2c_get_adapter_physdev(parent);
+ if (!parent_physdev) {
+ dev_err(muxc->dev, "failed to get the parent physical device\n");
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto err_free_priv;
+ }
+ dl = device_link_add(muxc->dev, parent_physdev, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER);
+ if (!dl) {
+ dev_err(muxc->dev, "failed to create device link to %s\n",
+ dev_name(parent_physdev));
+ put_device(parent_physdev);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_free_priv;
+ }
+ put_device(parent_physdev);
+
if (force_nr) {
priv->adap.nr = force_nr;
ret = i2c_add_numbered_adapter(&priv->adap);
--
2.56.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-04 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 13:53 [PATCH v9 0/3] lan966x pci device: Add support for SFPs, i2c part Herve Codina
2026-11-04 13:53 ` [PATCH v9 1/3] i2c: core: Introduce i2c_get_adapter_physdev() Herve Codina
2026-11-04 13:53 ` [PATCH v9 2/3] i2c: {mux,atr}: Set adapter physical device Herve Codina
2026-11-04 13:53 ` Herve Codina [this message]
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