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authorMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>2009-01-21 23:27:47 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-24 16:38:24 -0700
commit49b420a13ff95b449947181190b08367348e3e1b (patch)
tree5feec1d1eac071e46c9aacec4255d891fa4f7ed2 /drivers/block
parent4a67a1bc0b3a0db017b560cee27370d141c58e25 (diff)
downloadlinux-49b420a13ff95b449947181190b08367348e3e1b.tar.gz
driver core: check bus->match without holding device lock
This patch moves bus->match out from driver_probe_device and
does not hold device lock to check the match between a device
and a driver.

The idea has been verified by the commit 6cd495860901,
which leads to a faster boot. But the commit 6cd495860901 has
the following drawbacks: 1),only does the quick check in
the path of __driver_attach->driver_probe_device, not in other
paths; 2),for a matched device and driver, check the same match
twice. It is a waste of cpu ,especially for some drivers with long
device id table (eg. usb-storage driver).

This patch adds a helper of driver_match_device to check the match
in all paths, and testes the match only once.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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