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Commit 49b420a1 authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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 6cd49586,
which leads to a faster boot. But the commit 6cd49586

 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: default avatarMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 4a67a1bc
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