Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Use kacpi_hotplug_wq to handle container hotplug event.

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Hi Tang,

2012/10/24 15:05, Tang Chen wrote:
> As the comments in __acpi_os_execute() said:
> 
> 	We can't run hotplug code in keventd_wq/kacpid_wq/kacpid_notify_wq
> 	because the hotplug code may call driver .remove() functions,
> 	which invoke flush_scheduled_work/acpi_os_wait_events_complete
> 	to flush these workqueues.
> 
> we should keep the hotplug code in kacpi_hotplug_wq.
> 
> But we have the following call series in kernel now:
> 	acpi_ev_queue_notify_request()
> 	|--> acpi_os_execute()
> 	     |--> __acpi_os_execute(type, function, context, 0)
> 
> The last parameter 0 makes the container_notify_cb() executed in
> kacpi_notify_wq or kacpid_wq. So, we need to put the real hotplug code
> into kacpi_hotplug_wq.

I cannot understand the purpose of the patch.
Is the patch a bug fix patch? If yes, what problem happens?

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/acpi/container.c |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
>   1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/container.c b/drivers/acpi/container.c
> index 69e2d6b..d300e03 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/container.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/container.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>   #include <acpi/acpi_bus.h>
>   #include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
>   #include <acpi/container.h>
> +#include <acpi/acpiosxf.h>
>   
>   #define PREFIX "ACPI: "
>   
> @@ -165,14 +166,21 @@ static int container_device_add(struct acpi_device **device, acpi_handle handle)
>   	return result;
>   }
>   
> -static void container_notify_cb(acpi_handle handle, u32 type, void *context)
> +static void __container_notify_cb(struct work_struct *work)
>   {
>   	struct acpi_device *device = NULL;
>   	int result;
>   	int present;
>   	acpi_status status;
> +	struct acpi_hp_work *hp_work;
> +	acpi_handle handle;
> +	u32 type;
>   	u32 ost_code = ACPI_OST_SC_NON_SPECIFIC_FAILURE; /* default */
>   
> +	hp_work = container_of(work, struct acpi_hp_work, work);
> +	handle = hp_work->handle;
> +	type = hp_work->type;
> +
>   	switch (type) {
>   	case ACPI_NOTIFY_BUS_CHECK:
>   		/* Fall through */
> @@ -224,6 +232,13 @@ static void container_notify_cb(acpi_handle handle, u32 type, void *context)
>   	return;
>   }
>   
> +static void container_notify_cb(acpi_handle handle, u32 type,
> +				void *context)
> +{
> +	alloc_acpi_hp_work(handle, type, context,
> +			   __container_notify_cb);
> +}
> +
>   static acpi_status
>   container_walk_namespace_cb(acpi_handle handle,
>   			    u32 lvl, void *context, void **rv)
> 


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