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Probing of regulators can be a slow operation and can contribute to slower boot times. This is especially true if a regulator is turned on at probe time (with regulator-boot-on or regulator-always-on) and the regulator requires delays (off-on-time, ramp time, etc). While the overall kernel is not ready to switch to async probe by default, as per the discussion on the mailing lists [1] it is believed that the regulator subsystem is in good shape and we can move regulator drivers over wholesale. There is no way to just magically opt in all regulators (regulators are just normal drivers like platform_driver), so we set PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS for all regulators found in 'drivers/regulator' individually. Given the number of drivers touched and the impossibility to test this ahead of time, it wouldn't be shocking at all if this caused a regression for someone. If there is a regression caused by this patch, it's likely to be one of the cases talked about in [1]. As a "quick fix", drivers involved in the regression could be fixed by changing them to PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS. That being said, the correct fix would be to directly fix the problem that caused the issue with async probe. The approach here follows a similar approach that was used for the mmc subsystem several years ago [2]. In fact, I ran nearly the same python script to auto-generate the changes. The only thing I changed was to search for "i2c_driver", "spmi_driver", and "spi_driver" in addition to "platform_driver". [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/06db017f-e985-4434-8d1d-02ca2100cca0@sirena.org.uk [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903232441.2694866-1-dianders@chromium.org/ Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316125351.1.I2a4677392a38db5758dee0788b2cea5872562a82@changeid Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
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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.
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.