If the fakephp driver is used to emulate removal of a PCI device by
writing text string "0" to the "power" sysfs attribute file, this causes
its parent directory and its contents (including the "power" file) to be
deleted before the write operation returns. Unfortunately, it ends up
in a deadlock waiting for itself to complete.
The deadlock is as follows: sysfs_write_file calls flush_write_buffer
which calls sysfs_get_active_two before calling power_write_file in
pci_hotplug_core.c via the sysfs store operation. The power_write_file
function calls disable_slot in fakephp.c via the slot operation. The
disable_slot function calls remove_slot which calls pci_hp_deregister
(back in pci_hotplug_core.c) which calls fs_remove_slot which calls
sysfs_remove_file to remove the "power" file. The sysfs_remove_file
function calls sysfs_hash_and_remove which calls sysfs_addrm_finish
which calls sysfs_deactivate. The sysfs_deactivate function sees that
something has an active reference on the sysfs_dirent (from the
previous call to sysfs_get_active_two back up the call stack somewhere)
so waits for the active reference to go away, which is of course
impossible.
The problem has been present since 2.6.21.
This patch breaks the deadlock by queuing work queue items on a single-
threaded work queue to remove a slot from sysfs, and to rescan the PCI
buses. There is also some protection against disabling a slot that is
already being removed.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert code that allocs a struct pci_dev to use alloc_pci_dev().
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This makes it possible to build pci hotplug drivers outside of the main
kernel tree, and Sam keeps telling me to move local header files to
their proper places...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
pci_find is not hotplug safe, so it really doesn't want to be in an
actual hotplug driver either.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
this patch converts drivers/pci to kzalloc usage.
Compile tested with allyes config.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Ian Abbott