From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hari Vyas <hari.vyas@broadcom.com>,
Ray Jui <ray.jui@broadcom.com>,
Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@broadcom.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>,
Marta Rybczynska <mrybczyn@kalray.eu>,
Pierre-Yves Kerbrat <pkerbrat@kalray.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] pci: Rework is_added race fix and address bridge enable races
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:03:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16dc573e5a9add534153b1236d3665b035b8d581.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817044902.31420-1-benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 14:48 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The second part aims at fixing the enable/disable/set_master races,
> and does so by providing a framework for future device state locking
> issues.
>
> It introduces a pci_dev->state_mutex which is used at a lower level
> than the device_lock (the device lock isn't suitable, as explained
> in the cset comments) and uses it to protect enablement and set_master.
As discussed in the series, I'm not using the device_lock because I
don't like it creeping out of drivers/base too much unless you
explicitly try to lock against concurrent add/remove.
That being said, if we decided we prefer using it to solve the
enable/disable race, then we have to be careful of a few things:
- Driver callbacks hold it, so we can't take it from within
pci_enable_device(), pci_set_master() etc... themselves. We'll have to
assume the caller has it
- The above means auditing callers of these various APIs that might be
calling them from outside of a driver callback and add the necessary
lock
- We need to take great care about the possibility of the parent
device(s) lock being held. It can happen for USB for example. Now we
don't have USB->PCI adapters that I know of that uses the PCI stack in
Linux but generally assuming your parent lock isn't held is risky. So I
would be a bit weary of walking up the bridge chain and taking it
unconditionally.
Alternatively, we could hijack an existing global lock, for example
mvoe the bridge_mutex outside of ACPI and use it for the upwards bridge
walk, and ignore the other possible races with enable/disable.
Cheers,
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-17 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-17 4:48 [RFC PATCH 0/6] pci: Rework is_added race fix and address bridge enable races Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] Revert "PCI: Fix is_added/is_busmaster race condition" Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 15:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2018-08-18 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-19 2:24 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2018-08-20 2:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-20 6:25 ` Hari Vyas
2018-08-20 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-20 11:43 ` Hari Vyas
2018-08-20 7:17 ` Lukas Wunner
2018-08-20 11:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] pci: Set pci_dev->is_added before calling device_add Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 16:25 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2018-08-17 18:15 ` Lukas Wunner
2018-08-18 3:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-18 3:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] pci: Remove priv_flags and use dev->error_state for "disconnected" status Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 5:13 ` [RFC PATCH v2 " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:49 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] pci: Add a mutex to pci_dev to protect device state Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:49 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] pci: Protect the enable/disable state of pci_dev using the state mutex Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 8:09 ` Marta Rybczynska
2018-08-17 8:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 9:00 ` Hari Vyas
2018-08-17 9:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 10:10 ` Hari Vyas
2018-08-17 10:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 4:49 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] pci: Protect is_busmaster using the state lock Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-17 5:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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