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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0704191019320.3413-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFD] alternative kobject release wait mechanism
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:06:25 +0900,
> Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > Heh heh, I'm amazed it actually works. Agreed that the list walking
> > isn't pretty but adding completion to each kobject still feels like too
> > much of overhead just for release waiting. Any better ideas?
>
> Not really. But I'm more in favour on adding a new field than on adding
> complicated code. (Although, the whole device infrastructure wouldn't
> fare bad with some diet...)
The patch below, applied on top of Cornelia's changes plus the
kobject_init() patch I posted earlier, actually seems to work. And it
prevents an oops which I was able to trigger without it.
Alan Stern
Index: usb-2.6/drivers/base/core.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/base/core.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -479,8 +479,9 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct kl
/**
- * device_initialize - init device structure.
+ * device_initialize_owner - init device structure.
* @dev: device.
+ * @owner: module owing the release routine.
*
* This prepares the device for use by other layers,
* including adding it to the device hierarchy.
@@ -489,10 +490,10 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct kl
* may use @dev's fields (e.g. the refcount).
*/
-void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
+void device_initialize_owner(struct device *dev, struct module *owner)
{
kobj_set_kset_s(dev, devices_subsys);
- kobject_init(&dev->kobj);
+ kobject_init_owner(&dev->kobj, owner);
klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get,
klist_children_put);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->dma_pools);
@@ -756,8 +757,9 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
/**
- * device_register - register a device with the system.
+ * device_register_owner - register a device with the system.
* @dev: pointer to the device structure
+ * @owner: module owning the release routine
*
* This happens in two clean steps - initialize the device
* and add it to the system. The two steps can be called
@@ -767,9 +769,9 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
* before it is added to the hierarchy.
*/
-int device_register(struct device *dev)
+int device_register_owner(struct device *dev, struct module *owner)
{
- device_initialize(dev);
+ device_initialize_owner(dev, owner);
return device_add(dev);
}
@@ -1013,9 +1015,9 @@ int __init devices_init(void)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_for_each_child);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_find_child);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_initialize);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_initialize_owner);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_add);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_register);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_register_owner);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_del);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_unregister);
Index: usb-2.6/include/linux/device.h
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/include/linux/device.h
+++ usb-2.6/include/linux/device.h
@@ -509,9 +509,12 @@ void driver_init(void);
/*
* High level routines for use by the bus drivers
*/
-extern int __must_check device_register(struct device * dev);
+extern int __must_check device_register_owner(struct device * dev,
+ struct module *owner);
+#define device_register(dev) device_register_owner(dev, THIS_MODULE)
extern void device_unregister(struct device * dev);
-extern void device_initialize(struct device * dev);
+extern void device_initialize_owner(struct device * dev, struct module *owner);
+#define device_initialize(dev) device_initialize_owner(dev, THIS_MODULE)
extern int __must_check device_add(struct device * dev);
extern void device_del(struct device * dev);
extern int device_for_each_child(struct device *, void *,
Index: usb-2.6/drivers/base/platform.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ usb-2.6/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -106,13 +106,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_get_irq_bynam
* platform_add_devices - add a numbers of platform devices
* @devs: array of platform devices to add
* @num: number of platform devices in array
+ * @owner: module owning the devices in @devs
*/
-int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **devs, int num)
+int platform_add_devices_owner(struct platform_device **devs, int num,
+ struct module *owner)
{
int i, ret = 0;
for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- ret = platform_device_register(devs[i]);
+ ret = platform_device_register_owner(devs[i], owner);
if (ret) {
while (--i >= 0)
platform_device_unregister(devs[i]);
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ int platform_add_devices(struct platform
return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_add_devices);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_add_devices_owner);
struct platform_object {
struct platform_device pdev;
@@ -311,16 +313,18 @@ void platform_device_del(struct platform
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_del);
/**
- * platform_device_register - add a platform-level device
+ * platform_device_register_owner - add a platform-level device
* @pdev: platform device we're adding
+ * @owner: module owning @pdev
*
*/
-int platform_device_register(struct platform_device * pdev)
+int platform_device_register_owner(struct platform_device * pdev,
+ struct module *owner)
{
- device_initialize(&pdev->dev);
+ device_initialize_owner(&pdev->dev, owner);
return platform_device_add(pdev);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_register_owner);
/**
* platform_device_unregister - unregister a platform-level device
Index: usb-2.6/include/linux/platform_device.h
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ usb-2.6/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ struct platform_device {
#define to_platform_device(x) container_of((x), struct platform_device, dev)
-extern int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *);
+extern int platform_device_register_owner(struct platform_device *,
+ struct module *owner);
+#define platform_device_register(pdev) platform_device_register_owner(pdev, THIS_MODULE)
extern void platform_device_unregister(struct platform_device *);
extern struct bus_type platform_bus_type;
@@ -33,7 +35,9 @@ extern struct resource *platform_get_res
extern int platform_get_irq(struct platform_device *, unsigned int);
extern struct resource *platform_get_resource_byname(struct platform_device *, unsigned int, char *);
extern int platform_get_irq_byname(struct platform_device *, char *);
-extern int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **, int);
+extern int platform_add_devices_owner(struct platform_device **, int,
+ struct module *owner);
+#define platform_add_devices(devs, n) platform_add_devices_owner(devs, n, THIS_MODULE)
extern struct platform_device *platform_device_register_simple(char *, unsigned int, struct resource *, unsigned int);
-
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