[PATCH v5 00/25] Consolidate bus driver infrastructure

[David Marchand]

On Sat, 30 May 2026 at 09:52, David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This is a continuation of the work I started on the bus infrastructure,
> but this time, a lot of the changes were done by a AI "friend".
> It is still an unfinished topic as the current series focuses on probing
> only. The detaching/cleanup aspect is postponed to another release/time.
>
> My AI "friend" really *sucked* at git and at separating unrelated changes,
> so it required quite a lot of massage/polishing afterwards.
> But it seems good enough now for upstream submission.
>
> I would like to see this series merged in 26.07, so that we have enough
> time to stabilize it before the next LTS.
> And seeing how it affects drivers, it is probably better to merge it
> the sooner possible (so Thomas does not have to solve too many conflicts
> when pulling next-* subtrees after, especially wrt the last patch).
>
>
> This series refactors the DPDK bus infrastructure to consolidate common
> operations and reduce code duplication across all bus drivers.
> Currently, each bus implements its own specific device/driver lists,
> probe logic, and lookup functions.
> This series moves these common patterns into the EAL bus layer,
> providing generic helpers that all buses can use.
>
> The refactoring removes approximately 1,400 lines of duplicated code across
> the codebase while maintaining full functional equivalence.
>
> Key changes:
> - Factorize device and driver lists into struct rte_bus
> - Implement generic probe, device/driver lookup, and iteration helpers in EAL
> - Introduce conversion macros (RTE_BUS_DEVICE, RTE_BUS_DRIVER, RTE_CLASS_TO_BUS_DEVICE)
>   to safely convert between generic and bus-specific types
> - Remove bus-specific device/driver types from most driver code
> - Move probe logic from individual buses to rte_bus_generic_probe()
> - Separate NXP-specific metadata from generic bus structures
>
> Benefits:
> - Significant code reduction (~1,400 lines removed)
> - Consistent behavior across all bus types
> - Simplified bus driver implementation
> - Easier maintenance and future enhancements
>
> The series is structured as a progressive refactoring:
> - Remove redundant checks and helpers, fix existing bugs (patches 1-7)
> - Add conversion macros and factorize lists (patches 8-10)
> - Consolidate device/driver lookup and iteration (patches 11-13)
> - Refactor probe logic (patches 14-17)
> - Remove bus-specific types from drivers (patches 18-25)
>
> Note on ABI:
> This series breaks the ABI for drivers (changes to rte_pci_device,
> rte_pci_driver, and similar structures for other buses). However, the DPDK
> ABI policy does not provide guarantees for driver-level interfaces.

Thomas pointed out offlist at a leak in the bus cleanup updates (patch
6): not-probed devices are not freed when calling the bus cleanup
operation.
I will fix this in a future series (hopefully for rc2), after
refactoring the cleanup/unplug code flows.

For now, series applied for rc1.
Thanks for the reviews!


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David Marchand