[+Guenter] Looks good to me. Unfortunately, I do not have the hardware anymore to test it :-( Guenter: Do you have it, or know some body who has and wants to test this? Thanks, Rajat On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > rajatjain@xxxxxxxxxxx is not reachable now. > > So add CC: rajatxjain@xxxxxxxxx > > On 2015/6/11 19:12, Yijing Wang wrote: >> Rajat Jain reported a deadlock when a hierarchical hot plug >> thread and aer recovery thread both run. >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/11/861 >> >> thread 1: >> pciehp_enable_slot() >> pciehp_configure_device() >> pci_bus_add_devices() >> device_attach(dev) >> device_lock(dev) //acquire device mutex successfully >> ... >> pciehp_probe(dev) >> __pci_hp_register() >> pci_create_slot() >> down_write(pci_bus_sem) //deadlock here >> >> thread 2: >> aer_isr_one_error() >> aer_process_err_device() >> do_recovery() >> broadcast_error_message() >> pci_walk_bus() >> down_read(&pci_bus_sem) //acquire pci_bus_sem successfully >> report_error_detected(dev) >> device_lock(dev) // deadlock here >> >> Now we use pci_bus_sem to protect pci_slot creation and destroy, >> it's unnecessary. We could introduce a new local mutex instead of >> pci_bus_sem to avoid the deadlock. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/pci/slot.c | 11 ++++++----- >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/pci/slot.c b/drivers/pci/slot.c >> index 396c200..feb08de 100644 >> --- a/drivers/pci/slot.c >> +++ b/drivers/pci/slot.c >> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ >> >> struct kset *pci_slots_kset; >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_slots_kset); >> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(pci_slot_mutex); >> >> static ssize_t pci_slot_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, >> struct attribute *attr, char *buf) >> @@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ static struct pci_slot *get_slot(struct pci_bus *parent, int slot_nr) >> { >> struct pci_slot *slot; >> /* >> - * We already hold pci_bus_sem so don't worry >> + * We already hold pci_slot_mutex so don't worry >> */ >> list_for_each_entry(slot, &parent->slots, list) >> if (slot->number == slot_nr) { >> @@ -253,7 +254,7 @@ struct pci_slot *pci_create_slot(struct pci_bus *parent, int slot_nr, >> int err = 0; >> char *slot_name = NULL; >> >> - down_write(&pci_bus_sem); >> + mutex_lock(&pci_slot_mutex); >> >> if (slot_nr == -1) >> goto placeholder; >> @@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ placeholder: >> >> out: >> kfree(slot_name); >> - up_write(&pci_bus_sem); >> + mutex_unlock(&pci_slot_mutex); >> return slot; >> err: >> kfree(slot); >> @@ -332,9 +333,9 @@ void pci_destroy_slot(struct pci_slot *slot) >> dev_dbg(&slot->bus->dev, "dev %02x, dec refcount to %d\n", >> slot->number, atomic_read(&slot->kobj.kref.refcount) - 1); >> >> - down_write(&pci_bus_sem); >> + mutex_lock(&pci_slot_mutex); >> kobject_put(&slot->kobj); >> - up_write(&pci_bus_sem); >> + mutex_unlock(&pci_slot_mutex); >> } >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_destroy_slot); >> >> > > > -- > Thanks! > Yijing > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html