On 18/07/17 16:39, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > Hi Hans, > > Thanks for your feedback. > > On 2017-07-18 16:22:14 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> On 17/07/17 18:59, Niklas Söderlund wrote: >>> There is no good reason to hold the list_lock when reprobing the devices >>> and it prevents a clean implementation of subdevice notifiers. Move the >>> actual release of the devices outside of the loop which requires the >>> lock to be held. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c | 29 ++++++++++------------------- >>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c >>> index 0acf288d7227ba97..8fc84f7962386ddd 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c >>> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-async.c >>> @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier) >>> unsigned int notif_n_subdev = notifier->num_subdevs; >>> unsigned int n_subdev = min(notif_n_subdev, V4L2_MAX_SUBDEVS); >>> struct device **dev; >>> - int i = 0; >>> + int i, count = 0; >>> >>> if (!notifier->v4l2_dev) >>> return; >>> @@ -222,37 +222,28 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_unregister(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier) >>> list_del(¬ifier->list); >>> >>> list_for_each_entry_safe(sd, tmp, ¬ifier->done, async_list) { >>> - struct device *d; >>> - >>> - d = get_device(sd->dev); >>> + if (dev) >>> + dev[count] = get_device(sd->dev); >>> + count++; >>> >>> if (notifier->unbind) >>> notifier->unbind(notifier, sd, sd->asd); >>> >>> v4l2_async_cleanup(sd); >>> + } >>> >>> - /* If we handled USB devices, we'd have to lock the parent too */ >>> - device_release_driver(d); >>> + mutex_unlock(&list_lock); >>> >>> - /* >>> - * Store device at the device cache, in order to call >>> - * put_device() on the final step >>> - */ >>> + for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { >>> + /* If we handled USB devices, we'd have to lock the parent too */ >>> if (dev) >>> - dev[i++] = d; >>> - else >>> - put_device(d); >>> + device_release_driver(dev[i]); >> >> This changes the behavior. If the alloc failed, then at least put_device was still called. >> Now that no longer happens. > > Yes, but also changes the behavior to also only call get_device() if the > allocation was successful. So the behavior is kept the same as far as I > understands it. Ah, I missed that. Sorry about that. But regardless of that the device_release_driver(d) isn't called anymore. It's not clear at all to me whether that is a problem or not. > >> >> Frankly I don't understand this code, it is in desperate need of some comments explaining >> this whole reprobing thing. > > I agree that the code is in need of comments, but I feel a patch that > separates the v4l2-async work from the re-probing work is a step in the > right direction :-) Would it help to simplify this function to: dev = kvmalloc_array(n_subdev, sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) { dev_err(notifier->v4l2_dev->dev, "Failed to allocate device cache!\n"); mutex_lock(&list_lock); list_del(¬ifier->list); /* this assumes device_release_driver(d) isn't necessary */ list_for_each_entry_safe(sd, tmp, ¬ifier->done, async_list) { if (notifier->unbind) notifier->unbind(notifier, sd, sd->asd); v4l2_async_cleanup(sd); } mutex_unlock(&list_lock); return; } ...and here the code where dev is non-NULL... Yes, there is some code duplication, but it is a lot easier to understand. Regards, Hans > >> >> I have this strong feeling that this function needs to be reworked. > > I also strongly agree with this. > >> >> Regards, >> >> Hans >> >>> } >>> >>> - mutex_unlock(&list_lock); >>> - >>> /* >>> * Call device_attach() to reprobe devices >>> - * >>> - * NOTE: If dev allocation fails, i is 0, and the whole loop won't be >>> - * executed. >>> */ >>> - while (i--) { >>> + for (i = 0; dev && i < count; i++) { >>> struct device *d = dev[i]; >>> >>> if (d && device_attach(d) < 0) { >>> >> >