Re: More PCI races...

• Next message: Stuart Lynne: "Re: It's time to get rid of zImage"
• Previous message: H. Peter Anvin: "Re: xargs environment overflow: patch"
• In reply to: David Woodhouse: "More PCI races..."
• Next in thread: Alan Cox: "Re: More PCI races..."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

dwmw2@infradead.org said:
> The answer seems to be to put a lock around all four functions. As
> the probe functions are permitted to sleep, that lock should probably
> be a semaphore.

Argh. Except Documentation/pci.txt says that pci_driver->remove() routines
may be called from IRQ context, implying that pci_remove_device() may be
called from IRQ context, and hence that we can't use a semaphore.

Urgh. I need more coffee. Or some sleep.

Can we declare that pci_remove_device may not be called from IRQ context?

--
dwmw2
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

• Next message: Stuart Lynne: "Re: It's time to get rid of zImage"
• Previous message: H. Peter Anvin: "Re: xargs environment overflow: patch"
• In reply to: David Woodhouse: "More PCI races..."
• Next in thread: Alan Cox: "Re: More PCI races..."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:00:34 EST