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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
	Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] PCI/IOV: simplify code by hotplug safe pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:51:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9FiQWuVW6U9cE+iY0Gpua_0xhdxp6HxcWyhqqSN+L3Da_1Qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo58sSCPYF9Ug-o-f3odJovECkdxPOoahx9+Ob6kmP_srw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>> in that case, VFs  are stopped before PF, so they are not in device
>> tree anymore.
>> so pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot will not find those VFs.
>>
>> So the reference to PF is not released. Also vit_bus may not be released too.
>>
>> So you have to rework
>>     pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot to make it work on pci devices get stopped only.
>>
>> or just drop this from the tree.
>
> pci_find_bus() is a broken interface (because there's no reference
> counting or safety with respect to hot-plug), and if the design
> depends on it, that means the design is broken, too.  I don't think
> reworking pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() is the right answer.
>
> It's not clear to me why we need the split between stopping and
> removing devices.  That split leads to these zombie devices that have
> been stopped and are no longer findable by bus_find_device() (which is
> used by pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()), but still "exist" in some
> fashion until they're removed.  It's unreasonable for random PCI and
> driver code to have to worry about that zombie state.

That is not zombie state. that is driver unloaded, and not in /sys, /proc.
that pci device only can be found under bus->devices.

just like we have pci_device_add and pci_bus_add_device
or acpi add and acpi start.

Splitting stop and remove should be more clean than mixing stop and remove.

>
> I'll revert this patch for now to fix the regression.  Of course, that
> means we will still have the old problem of using the unsafe
> pci_find_bus().
>
>> BTW, Bjorn,
>> for the similar reason,  you need to apply
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=commitdiff;h=e5a50aa3dfca1331c7c783412b1524bea06d2752
>> ...
>> the reason is:
>>
>> We stop all VFs at first , stop PF
>> before we stop PF, we can not remove VFs,
>>
>> otherwise virtfn_remove does not work properly to remove reference and
>> virtfn bus while can not find vf.
>
> I'll apply this one, too, for now.  I put them both on the
> pci/yinghai-revert-pci_find_bus-and-remove-cleanup branch.  Let me
> know if that's not what you expected.

Yes, they are good.

>
> I'm not happy about either reverting Jiang's patch or splitting
> stop/remove again.  It complicates the design and the code.  I'll
> apply them because they're regressions, and we don't have time for
> redesign before 3.7.  But I encourage you to think about how to do
> this more cleanly.

That will need to redesign sriov implementation.

Also that pci root bus add/start, stop/remove will need special
sequence to make ioapic
and dmar to be started early before normal pci device drivers and
stopped after normal pci device drivers.

-Yinghai

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-28 15:43 [PATCH 0/5] Simplify code by using hotplug safe pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() Jiang Liu
2012-08-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] PCI/IA64: simplify code by " Jiang Liu
2012-08-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] PCI/vga: " Jiang Liu
2012-08-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] PCI/cpcihp: " Jiang Liu
2012-08-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] PCI/IOV: " Jiang Liu
2012-09-20 20:38   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-20 23:59     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-09-21  0:02       ` Jiang Liu
2012-09-21  1:51       ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2012-09-21  2:56         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-09-21  6:22           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 14:15             ` Don Dutile
2012-09-21 15:11               ` Yinghai Lu
2012-08-28 15:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] PCI/xen-pcifront: " Jiang Liu
2012-08-28 16:59   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-08-28 23:56     ` Jiang Liu
2012-09-05 16:29       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-05 20:32   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-17 19:34 ` [PATCH 0/5] Simplify code by using " Bjorn Helgaas

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