linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH V2 5/6] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generic support for the PCI sub driver

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:19:26 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     kan.liang@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        eranian@...gle.com, ak@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH V2 5/6] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generic support for
 the PCI sub driver

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 07:34:19AM -0700, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Some uncore counters may be located in the configuration space of a PCI
> device, which already has a bonded driver. Currently, the uncore driver
> cannot register a PCI uncore PMU for these counters, because, to
> register a PCI uncore PMU, the uncore driver must be bond to the device.
> However, one device can only have one bonded driver.
> 
> Add an uncore PCI sub driver to support such kind of devices.
> 
> The sub driver doesn't own the device. In initialization, the sub
> driver searches the device via pci_get_device(), and register the
> corresponding PMU for the device. In the meantime, the sub driver
> registeris a PCI bus notifier, which is used to notify the sub driver
> once the device is removed. The sub driver can unregister the PMU
> accordingly.

s/registeris/registers/

It looks like this only handles hot-remove of the device, not hot-add.
Maybe that's OK for your use case, I dunno, so just pointing it out.