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Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:11:08 -0600
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kristen.c.accardi@...el.com, greg@...ah.com, lenb@...nel.org,
	pbadari@...ibm.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4, v14] PCI, ACPI: Physical PCI slot objects

* Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>:
>
> I tried your patches and I have a comment (question) about the behavior.
>
> To emulate the (broken?) platform that assigns the same name to multiple
> slots, I made a debug patch for pciehp driver to assign same name ('1000')
> to all slots (my environment has two PCIe slots). With this patch, I
> noticed that the behavior or pci_hp_register() (or pci_create_slot())
> varies depending on whether pci_slot driver is loaded or not. See below.
>
> (a) With pci_slot driver loaded
>    I got the following error message when I loaded pciehp driver.
>
>        pciehp: pci_hp_register failed with error -17
>        pciehp: Failed to register slot because of name collision. Try
>        'pciehp_slot_with_bus' module option.
>        pciehp: pciehp: slot initialization failed
>      (b) Without pci_slot driver loaded
>    I got the kernel stack dump and error messages when I loaded pciehp
>    driver.
>
> 	kobject_add_internal failed for 1000 with -EEXIST, don't try to
> 	register things with the same name in the same directory.
>
> 	Call Trace:
> 	 [<a000000100015180>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fb80 bsp=e0000040a0861158
> 	 [<a000000100015210>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
>                                sp=e0000040a086fd50 bsp=e0000040a0861140
> 	 [<a0000001003b3910>] kobject_add_internal+0x330/0x400
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fd50 bsp=e0000040a0861100
> 	 [<a0000001003b3bd0>] kobject_add_varg+0x90/0xc0
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fd50 bsp=e0000040a08610c8
> 	 [<a0000001003b3c90>] kobject_init_and_add+0x90/0xc0
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fd50 bsp=e0000040a0861068
> 	 [<a0000001003d69b0>] pci_create_slot+0x150/0x260
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fd80 bsp=e0000040a0861030
> 	 [<a000000200b71870>] pci_hp_register+0x130/0x880 [pci_hotplug]
> 	                                sp=e0000040a086fd80 bsp=e0000040a0860ff0
> 	 [<a000000200ec1a60>] pciehp_probe+0x720/0xca0 [pciehp]
>
> 	(snip...)
>
> 	Unable to register kobject 1000
> 	pciehp: pci_hp_register failed with error -17
> 	pciehp: Failed to register slot because of name collision. Try  
> 	'pciehp_slot_with_bus' module option.
> 	pciehp: pciehp: slot initialization failed
>
> Could you tell me why that difference happen? And my expectation is
> the result should be (a) above regardless of whether pci_slot driver
> is loaded or not.

The difference was because in (a), pci_slot created the slots and
when pciehp tried to register them, the pci slot infrastructure
simply refcounted them and returned, but did not try to
re-register the kobjects with the kobj core.

In (b), the pci hotplug core allowed you to create multiple slots
with the same name, and called pci_create_slot() multiple times.
This time, since you were trying to create new slot objects, we
did not refcount them; we actually did a kzalloc *and* tried to
register them with the kobject core, which is why we got that
stack trace.

I read your patch (a86161b3134465f) in closer detail and decided
that it can work without problems with my patch series. 

	- Your patch will keep track of hotplug slots and
	  disallow multiple hotplug slots with the same name

	- the PCI slot infrastructure will still allow multiple
	  callers of pci_create_slot() to succeed by refcounting
	  identical slots

This is the correct behavior to allow pciehp and pci_slot to
coexist because pci_slot is not trying to register a hotplug
handler or do any other hotplug operations.

I will update the patch series and resend it.

Thanks for testing, sorry about the inconvenience.

/ac

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