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/deferred_devices 48070000.i2c:twl@48:bci musb-hdrc.0.auto omapdrm.0 Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javi...@redhat.com> --- drivers/base/dd.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 1435d7281c6..98a3ab4a852 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -224,6 +224,43 @@ void device_unblock_probing(void) driver_deferred_probe_trigger(); } +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) +#include <linux/debugfs.h> + +static struct dentry *deferred_devices; + +/* + * deferred_devs_show() - Show the devices in the deferred probe pending list. + */ +static int deferred_devs_show(struct seq_file *s, void *data) +{ + struct device_private *curr; + int ret = 0; + + mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex); + + list_for_each_entry(curr, &deferred_probe_pending_list, deferred_probe) + seq_printf(s, "%s\n", dev_name(curr->device)); + + mutex_unlock(&deferred_probe_mutex); + + return ret; +} + +static int deferred_devs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) +{ + return single_open(file, deferred_devs_show, inode->i_private); +} + +static const struct file_operations deferred_devs_fops = { + .owner = THIS_MODULE, + .open = deferred_devs_open, + .read = seq_read, + .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = single_release, +}; +#endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) */ + /** * deferred_probe_initcall() - Enable probing of deferred devices * @@ -233,6 +270,14 @@ void device_unblock_probing(void) */ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void) { + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS)) { + deferred_devices = debugfs_create_file("deferred_devices", + 0444, NULL, NULL, + &deferred_devs_fops); + if (!deferred_devices) + return -ENOMEM; + } + driver_deferred_probe_enable = true; driver_deferred_probe_trigger(); /* Sort as many dependencies as possible before exiting initcalls */ -- 2.17.1