Re: [PATCH] PCI: Separate stop and remove devices in pciehp

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Yinghai,
>    The third patch make pci_stop_dev call pci_disable_sriov(dev).
> It looks asymmetrical, because pci_enable_sriov(dev, NR_VIRTFN) always
> be called by device driver. Why not work around this in device driver like ixgbe?
> I'm not familiar with SRIOV, so I'm just a bit puzzled.
>
> Thanks!
> Yijing.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Some driver (like ixgbe) does not call pci_disable_sriov() if
> sriov is enabled via /sys/.../sriov_numvfs setting.
> ixgbe does allow driver for PF get detached, but still have VFs
> around.
>
> But how about PF get removed via /sys or pciehp finally?
>
> During hot-remove, VF will still hold one ref to PF and it
> prevent PF to be removed.
> That make the next hot-add fails, as old PF dev struct is still around.
>
> We need to add pci_disable_sriov() calling during stop PF .
>
> Need this one for v3.11
>
> -v2: Accoring to Bjorn, move that calling to pci_stop_dev.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Donald Dutile <ddutile@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/remove.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/pci/remove.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/remove.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/pci/remove.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ static void pci_stop_dev(struct pci_dev
>                 pci_proc_detach_device(dev);
>                 pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files(dev);
>                 device_del(&dev->dev);
> +               /* remove VF, if PF driver skip that */
> +               pci_disable_sriov(dev);
>                 dev->is_added = 0;
>         }

Can you post these as a new thread with -v2 patches?

Why did you put pci_disable_sriov() inside the "if (dev->is_added)"
block?  Is it related to is_added?
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