Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI / dock / PCI: Synchronous handling of dockevents for PCI devices

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sun Jun 23 2013 - 16:29:47 EST


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06/23/2013 05:25 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The interactions between the ACPI dock driver and the ACPI-based PCI
>>> hotplug (acpiphp) are currently problematic because of ordering
>>> issues during hot-remove operations.
>>>
>>> First of all, the current ACPI glue code expects that physical
>>> devices will always be deleted before deleting the companion ACPI
>>> device objects. Otherwise, acpi_unbind_one() will fail with a
>>> warning message printed to the kernel log, for example:
>>>
>>> [ 185.026073] usb usb5: Oops, 'acpi_handle' corrupt
>>> [ 185.035150] pci 0000:1b:00.0: Oops, 'acpi_handle' corrupt
>>> [ 185.035515] pci 0000:18:02.0: Oops, 'acpi_handle' corrupt
>>> [ 180.013656] port1: Oops, 'acpi_handle' corrupt
>>>
>> [...]
>>> @@ -597,15 +654,11 @@ register_hotplug_dock_device(acpi_handle
>>> * ops
>>> */
>>> dd = find_dock_dependent_device(dock_station, handle);
>>> - if (dd) {
>>> - dd->ops = ops;
>>> - dd->context = context;
>>> - dock_add_hotplug_device(dock_station, dd);
>>> - ret = 0;
>>> - }
>>> + if (dd)
>>> + return dock_init_hotplug(dd, ops, context,
>>> + init, release);
>> Hi Rafael,
>> Seems not an equivalent change. According to the comment just above the
>> code, we shouldn't return but continue here.
>> /*
>> * An ATA bay can be in a dock and itself can be ejected
>> * separately, so there are two 'dock stations' which need the
>> * ops
>> */
>
> two dock stations:
> Do you mean two dock station has same handle?
>
> dock_add should add correctly flags for IS_DOCK and IS_ATA.
> if one handle has _DCK and _GTF etc.
>
> or do you mean there are two dependent devices with same handle?
> like one is for acpiphp slot and one is for ATA?

related commit:
commit 61b836958371c717d1e6d4fea1d2c512969ad20b
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 28 10:07:14 2008 +0800

dock: fix for ATA bay in a dock station

an ATA bay can be in a dock and itself can be ejected separately.
This patch handles such eject bay. Found by Holger.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
@@ -618,16 +619,21 @@ register_hotplug_dock_device(acpi_handle handle, struct ac
pi_dock_ops *ops,
* this would include the dock station itself
*/
list_for_each_entry(dock_station, &dock_stations, sibiling) {
+ /*
+ * An ATA bay can be in a dock and itself can be ejected
+ * seperately, so there are two 'dock stations' which need the
+ * ops
+ */
dd = find_dock_dependent_device(dock_station, handle);
if (dd) {
dd->ops = ops;
dd->context = context;
dock_add_hotplug_device(dock_station, dd);
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
}
}

- return -EINVAL;
+ return ret;
}

so two doc station with different handle.

and dependent devices in both...

looks like Rafael's change can not handle this case anymore.

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