Re: [PATCH v2] drivers-core: move the calling to device_pm_remove behind the calling to bus_remove_device

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 15:13:27 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 of October 2012 23:28:08 zhanglong wrote:
> > > We hit an hang issue when removing a mmc device on Medfield Android phone by sysfs interface.
> > > 
> > > device_pm_remove will call pm_runtime_remove which would disable
> > > runtime PM of the device. After that pm_runtime_get* or
> > > pm_runtime_put* will be ignored. So if we disable the runtime PM
> > > before device really be removed, drivers' _remove callback may
> > > access HW even pm_runtime_get* fails. That is bad.
> > > 
> > > Consider below call sequence when removing a device:
> > > device_del => device_pm_remove
> > >              => class_intf->remove_dev(dev, class_intf)  => pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync
> > >              => bus_remove_device => device_release_driver => pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync
> > > 
> > > remove_dev might call pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync.
> > > Then, generic device_release_driver also calls pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync.
> > > Since device_del => device_pm_remove firstly, later _get_sync wouldn't really wake up the device. 
> > > 
> > > I git log -p to find the patch which moves the calling to device_pm_remove ahead.
> > > It's below patch:
> > > 
> > > commit  775b64d2b6ca37697de925f70799c710aab5849a
> > > Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > > Date:   Sat Jan 12 20:40:46 2008 +0100
> > > 
> > >      PM: Acquire device locks on suspend
> > > 
> > >      This patch reorganizes the way suspend and resume notifications are
> > >      sent to drivers.  The major changes are that now the PM core acquires
> > >      every device semaphore before calling the methods, and calls to
> > >      device_add() during suspends will fail, while calls to device_del()
> > >      during suspends will block.
> > > 
> > >      It also provides a way to safely remove a suspended device with the
> > >      help of the PM core, by using the device_pm_schedule_removal() callback
> > >      introduced specifically for this purpose, and updates two drivers (msr
> > >      and cpuid) that need to use it. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > As device_pm_schedule_removal is deleted by another patch, we need also revert other parts of the patch,
> > > i.e. move the calling of device_pm_remove after the calling to bus_remove_device.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: LongX Zhang <longx.zhang@intel.com>
> > 
> > Greg, do you see any potential problems with this patch?
> 
> No, no objection from me:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

OK, thanks!

Applied to linux-pm.git/linux-next as v3.8 material.

Thanks,
Rafael


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