Merge tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...

include/linux/cacheinfo.h

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ enum cache_type {
 /**
  * struct cacheinfo - represent a cache leaf node
  * @type: type of the cache - data, inst or unified
- * @level: represents the hierarcy in the multi-level cache
+ * @level: represents the hierarchy in the multi-level cache
  * @coherency_line_size: size of each cache line usually representing
  *	the minimum amount of data that gets transferred from memory
  * @number_of_sets: total number of sets, a set is a collection of cache

include/linux/device.h

@@ -195,6 +195,34 @@ extern int bus_unregister_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
 extern struct kset *bus_get_kset(struct bus_type *bus);
 extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus);
 
+/**
+ * enum probe_type - device driver probe type to try
+ *	Device drivers may opt in for special handling of their
+ *	respective probe routines. This tells the core what to
+ *	expect and prefer.
+ *
+ * @PROBE_DEFAULT_STRATEGY: Used by drivers that work equally well
+ *	whether probed synchronously or asynchronously.
+ * @PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS: Drivers for "slow" devices which
+ *	probing order is not essential for booting the system may
+ *	opt into executing their probes asynchronously.
+ * @PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS: Use this to annotate drivers that need
+ *	their probe routines to run synchronously with driver and
+ *	device registration (with the exception of -EPROBE_DEFER
+ *	handling - re-probing always ends up being done asynchronously).
+ *
+ * Note that the end goal is to switch the kernel to use asynchronous
+ * probing by default, so annotating drivers with
+ * %PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS is a temporary measure that allows us
+ * to speed up boot process while we are validating the rest of the
+ * drivers.
+ */
+enum probe_type {
+	PROBE_DEFAULT_STRATEGY,
+	PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
+	PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
+};
+
 /**
  * struct device_driver - The basic device driver structure
  * @name:	Name of the device driver.
@@ -202,6 +230,7 @@ extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus);
  * @owner:	The module owner.
  * @mod_name:	Used for built-in modules.
  * @suppress_bind_attrs: Disables bind/unbind via sysfs.
+ * @probe_type:	Type of the probe (synchronous or asynchronous) to use.
  * @of_match_table: The open firmware table.
  * @acpi_match_table: The ACPI match table.
  * @probe:	Called to query the existence of a specific device,
@@ -235,6 +264,7 @@ struct device_driver {
 	const char		*mod_name;	/* used for built-in modules */
 
 	bool suppress_bind_attrs;	/* disables bind/unbind via sysfs */
+	enum probe_type probe_type;
 
 	const struct of_device_id	*of_match_table;
 	const struct acpi_device_id	*acpi_match_table;
@@ -975,6 +1005,7 @@ extern int __must_check device_bind_driver(struct device *dev);
 extern void device_release_driver(struct device *dev);
 extern int  __must_check device_attach(struct device *dev);
 extern int __must_check driver_attach(struct device_driver *drv);
+extern void device_initial_probe(struct device *dev);
 extern int __must_check device_reprobe(struct device *dev);
 
 /*

include/linux/module.h

@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ struct module {
 	bool sig_ok;
 #endif
 
+	bool async_probe_requested;
+
 	/* symbols that will be GPL-only in the near future. */
 	const struct kernel_symbol *gpl_future_syms;
 	const unsigned long *gpl_future_crcs;
@@ -508,6 +510,11 @@ int unregister_module_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 
 extern void print_modules(void);
 
+static inline bool module_requested_async_probing(struct module *module)
+{
+	return module && module->async_probe_requested;
+}
+
 #else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */
 
 /* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */
@@ -618,6 +625,12 @@ static inline int unregister_module_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 static inline void print_modules(void)
 {
 }
+
+static inline bool module_requested_async_probing(struct module *module)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS

include/linux/moduleparam.h

@@ -310,6 +310,15 @@ static inline void __kernel_param_unlock(void)
 #define core_param(name, var, type, perm)				\
 	param_check_##type(name, &(var));				\
 	__module_param_call("", name, &param_ops_##type, &var, perm, -1, 0)
+
+/**
+ * core_param_unsafe - same as core_param but taints kernel
+ */
+#define core_param_unsafe(name, var, type, perm)		\
+	param_check_##type(name, &(var));				\
+	__module_param_call("", name, &param_ops_##type, &var, perm,	\
+			    -1, KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE)
+
 #endif /* !MODULE */
 
 /**
@@ -357,8 +366,9 @@ extern char *parse_args(const char *name,
 		      unsigned num,
 		      s16 level_min,
 		      s16 level_max,
+		      void *arg,
 		      int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val,
-			      const char *doing));
+				     const char *doing, void *arg));
 
 /* Called by module remove. */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS