netdev - Re: [PATCH repost for-3.9] pci: avoid work_on

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Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:48:32 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Yan Burman <yanb@...lanox.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost for-3.9] pci: avoid work_on_cpu for nested SRIOV
 probes

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:40:09PM +0300, Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> On Thursday 18 April 2013 11:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > But for pci_sriov_enable, the situation is actually very simple:
> > VFs almost never use the same driver as the PF so the warning
> > is bogus there.
> > 
> What about the case where the VF driver IS the same as the PF driver?

Then it can deadlock, e.g. if driver takes a global mutex.  But it's an
internal driver issue the, you can trigger a deadlock through hardware
too, e.g. if VF initialization blocks until PF is fully initialized.
I think it's not the case for Mellanox, is it?
This is what I refer to: would be nice to fix nested probing in general
but it seems disabling the warning is the best we can do for 3.9 since
it causes false positives.


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