[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific

Oliver O'Halloran oohall at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 14:07:49 AEST 2020


The vio and ibmebus buses are used for pseries specific paravirtualised
devices and currently they're initialised by the generic initcall types.
This is mostly fine, but it can result in some nuisance errors in dmesg
when booting on PowerNV on some OSes, e.g.

[    2.984439] synth uevent: /devices/vio: failed to send uevent
[    2.984442] vio vio: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent
[   17.968551] synth uevent: /devices/vio: failed to send uevent
[   17.968554] vio vio: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent

We don't see anything similar for the ibmebus because that depends on
!CONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN.

This patch squashes those by switching to using machine_*_initcall() so the bus
type is only registered when the kernel is running on a pseries machine.

Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c     | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
index b91eb09..4cd9e65 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
@@ -464,4 +464,4 @@ static int __init ibmebus_bus_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-postcore_initcall(ibmebus_bus_init);
+machine_postcore_initcall(pseries, ibmebus_bus_init);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
index 37f1f25..33be37e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ static int __init vio_bus_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-postcore_initcall(vio_bus_init);
+machine_postcore_initcall(pseries, vio_bus_init);
 
 static int __init vio_device_init(void)
 {
@@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@ static int __init vio_device_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-device_initcall(vio_device_init);
+machine_device_initcall(pseries, vio_device_init);
 
 static ssize_t name_show(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
@@ -1703,4 +1703,4 @@ static int __init vio_init(void)
 	dma_debug_add_bus(&vio_bus_type);
 	return 0;
 }
-fs_initcall(vio_init);
+machine_fs_initcall(pseries, vio_init);
-- 
2.9.5



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