Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] driver core: Find an existing link between two devices

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 9:55:30 AM CET Vivek Gautam wrote:
> The lists managing the device-links can be traversed to
> find the link between two devices. The device_link_add() APIs
> does traverse these lists to check if there's already a link
> setup between the two devices.
> So, add a new APIs, device_link_find(), to find an existing
> device link between two devices - suppliers and consumers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  * New patch added to this series.
> 
>  drivers/base/core.c    | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/linux/device.h |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 5847364f25d9..e8c9774e4ba2 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -144,6 +144,30 @@ static int device_reorder_to_tail(struct device *dev, void *not_used)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * device_link_find - find any existing link between two devices.
> + * @consumer: Consumer end of the link.
> + * @supplier: Supplier end of the link.
> + *
> + * Returns pointer to the existing link between a supplier and
> + * and consumer devices, or NULL if no link exists.
> + */
> +struct device_link *device_link_find(struct device *consumer,
> +				     struct device *supplier)
> +{
> +	struct device_link *link = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!consumer || !supplier)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(link, &supplier->links.consumers, s_node)
> +		if (link->consumer == consumer)
> +			break;
> +

Any mutual exclusion?

Or is the caller expected to take care of it?  And if so, then how?

> +	return link;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_link_find);
> +
>  /**
>   * device_link_add - Create a link between two devices.
>   * @consumer: Consumer end of the link.
> @@ -195,9 +219,9 @@ struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer,
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> -	list_for_each_entry(link, &supplier->links.consumers, s_node)
> -		if (link->consumer == consumer)
> -			goto out;
> +	link = device_link_find(consumer, supplier);
> +	if (link)
> +		goto out;
>  
>  	link = kzalloc(sizeof(*link), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!link)
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index b093405ed525..13bc1884c3eb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -1278,6 +1278,8 @@ extern const char *dev_driver_string(const struct device *dev);
>  struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer,
>  				    struct device *supplier, u32 flags);
>  void device_link_del(struct device_link *link);
> +struct device_link *device_link_find(struct device *consumer,
> +				     struct device *supplier);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
>  
>