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SubjectRe: Why hold device_lock when calling callback in pci_walk_bus?
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Hi, Yanmin,

Thanks for your explain.

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:29 -0600, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> Some error handling functions call pci_walk_bus. For example, pci-e aer. Here we lock the device, so the driver wouldn't detach from the device, as the cb might call driver's callback function.

Still has two question.

1. Is it a good practice to hold device_lock when calling driver
callback to prevent driver be unbind?

2. Is it a good idea to let callback of pci_walk_bus to acquire
device_lock when necessary. Because pci_walk_bus may be used by driver
callback too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huang, Ying
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 4:15 PM
> To: bhelgaas@google.com
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; Zhang, Yanmin; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; rjw@sisk.pl
> Subject: Why hold device_lock when calling callback in pci_walk_bus?
>
> Hi, All,
>
> If my understanding were correct, device_lock is used to provide mutual exclusion between device probe/remove/suspend/resume etc. Why hold device_lock when calling callback in pci_walk_bus.
>
> This is introduced by the following commit.
>
> commit d71374dafbba7ec3f67371d3b7e9f6310a588808
> Author: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
> Date: Fri Jun 2 12:35:43 2006 +0800
>
> [PATCH] PCI: fix race with pci_walk_bus and pci_destroy_dev
>
> pci_walk_bus has a race with pci_destroy_dev. When cb is called
> in pci_walk_bus, pci_destroy_dev might unlink the dev pointed by next.
> Later on in the next loop, pointer next becomes NULL and cause
> kernel panic.
>
> Below patch against 2.6.17-rc4 fixes it by changing pci_bus_lock (spin_lock)
> to pci_bus_sem (rw_semaphore).
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Corresponding email thread is: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/26/38
>
> But from the commit and email thread, I can not find why we need to do that.
>
> I ask this question because I want to use pci_walk_bus in a function (in pci runtime resume path) which may be called with device_lock held.
>
> Can anyone help me on that?
>
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying
>
>




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