linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.26] PCI: refuse to re-add a device to a bus upon pci_scan_child

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Message-ID: <20080722165241.GD7337@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:52:41 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Eran Liberty <liberty@...ricom.com>
Cc:	eran liberty <eran.liberty@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26] PCI: refuse to re-add a device to a bus upon pci_scan_child_bus()

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:25:40PM +0300, Eran Liberty wrote:
> If my devices where the only one on the bus I would not have stumbled on 
> this bug. I would have removed them all before reloading and would have 
> scanned and empty PCI bus list after the reloading.

That's not true, the code you posted:

bus = null;
while ((bus = pci_find_next_bus(bus)) != NULL) {
        pci_scan_child_bus(bus);
        pci_bus_assign_resources(bus);
        pci_bus_add_devices(bus);
}

will scan all busses again.

> Alas, the CPU itself is a pci device. Upon scanning the bus it is it who 
> is duplicated. Upon trying to "pci_bus_add_devices()" you get resource 
> collision.

Does the CPU have BARs of its own?  If you have no other devices with
BARs, it would explain why you have not noticed the problem with
fixup_resource ;-)

> Do you perceive any down side to my suggested patch?
> It seems (to me) really logical that a device can not and should not be 
> added twice to a pci bus device list.

The problem is the other side-effects of what you propose.

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