linux-kernel - Re: ACPI hotplug panic with current git head

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Message-ID: <4973D42F.2050705@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:15:27 +0900
From:	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
CC:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	"Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@...el.com>, shaohua.li@...el.com
Subject: Re: ACPI hotplug panic with current git head

Len Brown wrote:
>>> It looks like acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle() is returning NULL, so this is
>>> the fix that works for me.
>>>
>> I'm sorry for troubling you, and thank you for your patience.
>>
>> The patch seems to avoid the kernel panic, but I still don't know
>> why acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle() returns NULL here. I assumed
>> it should return non-NULL value here. So I'd like to investigate
>> it more.
>>
> 
> 
> Kenji,
> I'd like to push jejb's 1-liner upstream now.
> It make sense, and it prevents a boot panic regression
> that I'd rather not have others experience in rc2.
> 

Yes, I agree. Thank you for doing this.

Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige


> I agree that it is important to hotplug for you to figure out
> why this machine runs down that path in the first place,
> and I'm sure that James will continue to work with you
> on that after the 1-liner is in.
> 
> thanks
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c
>>> index f09b101..803d9dd 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c
>>> @@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ static int detect_ejectable_slots(struct pci_bus *pbus)
>>>  	int found = acpi_pci_detect_ejectable(pbus);
>>>  	if (!found) {
>>>  		acpi_handle bridge_handle = acpi_pci_get_bridge_handle(pbus);
>>> +		if (!bridge_handle)
>>> +			return 0;
>>>  		acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, bridge_handle, (u32)1,
>>>  				    is_pci_dock_device, (void *)&found, NULL);
>>>  	}
> 
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