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Date:	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:02:15 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	Guo Chao <yan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] PCI: Eliminate race conditions between hotplug and
 sysfs rescan/remove (Was: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] PCI: Destroy pci dev only
 once)

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:20:44PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [Cc: adding linux-scsi for the MPT changes, Ben for powerpc, Matthew for
>  platform/x86 and Konrad for Xen]
> 
> On Friday, December 06, 2013 02:21:50 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > OK
> > 
> > To be a bit more constructive, as the next step I'd try to use
> > pci_remove_rescan_mutex to serialize all PCI hotplug operations (as I said
> > above) without making the other changes made by my patch.  Does that sound
> > reasonable?
> 
> Well, no answer here, so as a followup, a series implementing that idea
> follows.
> 
> I *hope* I found all of the places that need to be synchronized vs the bus
> rescan and device removal that can be triggered via sysfs, but I might overlook
> something.  Also in some cases I wasn't quite sure how much stuff to put under
> the lock, because said stuff is not exactly straightforward.

I applied this series to my pci/locking branch for v3.14.  It should appear
in -next tomorrow.

Note that this touches some areas that are not strictly PCI, so speak
up if I'm treading on your toes:

 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c       |   19 ++++++++++++--
 drivers/acpi/pci_root.c                |    6 ++++
 drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c       |    2 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp.h          |    5 +++
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c     |    2 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c     |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_pci.c |   14 +++++++++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c       |    8 +++++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c      |   13 ++++++++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_pci.c       |   17 +++++++++----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_core.c    |   19 ++++++++++----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_core.c      |    4 +++
 drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c     |    4 ++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/sgi_hotplug.c      |    5 +++
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_pci.c       |   18 ++++++++++---
 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c                |   19 +++++---------
 drivers/pci/probe.c                    |   18 +++++++++++++
 drivers/pci/remove.c                   |   11 ++++++++
 drivers/pci/xen-pcifront.c             |    8 ++++++
 drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c               |    7 +++++
 drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c        |    2 +
 drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c    |    2 +
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_base.c    |    2 -
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c    |    2 -
 include/linux/pci.h                    |    3 ++

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