linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use kacpi_hotplug_wq to handle container hotplug event.

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Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:36:12 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, lenb@...nel.org, jiang.liu@...wei.com,
	izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use kacpi_hotplug_wq to handle container hotplug event.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> As the comments in __acpi_os_execute() said:
>
>         We can't run hotplug code in keventd_wq/kacpid_wq/kacpid_notify_wq
>         because the hotplug code may call driver .remove() functions,
>         which invoke flush_scheduled_work/acpi_os_wait_events_complete
>         to flush these workqueues.
>
> we should keep the hotplug code in kacpi_hotplug_wq.
>
> But we have the following call series in kernel now:
>         acpi_ev_queue_notify_request()
>         |--> acpi_os_execute()
>              |--> __acpi_os_execute(type, function, context, 0)
>
> The last parameter 0 makes the container_notify_cb() executed in
> kacpi_notify_wq or kacpid_wq. So, we need to put the real hotplug code
> into kacpi_hotplug_wq.

I had other patches that merge acpi_hp_work in acpiphp and pci_root_hp.

I just put them in to for-pci-split-pci-root-hp-2.

can you check them to see if you can use it?

Thanks

Yinghai
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