Hi Marta, I could not get time to work on this. The present patch works for our platforms. so we continue with that. I will update new changes little later. If you have time, please try the same patch and let us know if any issue you see. Regards, Srinath. -----Original Message----- From: Marta Rybczynska [mailto:mrybczyn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 12:58 PM To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>; Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>; axboe@xxxxxx; hch@xxxxxx; sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pierre-Yves Kerbrat <pkerbrat@xxxxxxxxx>; Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nvme: avoid race-conditions when enabling devices > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:10:56PM +0100, Marta Rybczynska wrote: >> >> The problem may happen also with other device doing its probe and >> nvme running its workqueue (and we probably have seen it in practice >> too). We were thinking about a lock in the pci generic code too, >> that's why I've put the linux-pci@ list in copy. > > Yes, this is a generic problem in the PCI core. We've tried to fix it > in the past but haven't figured it out yet. > > See 40f11adc7cd9 ("PCI: Avoid race while enabling upstream bridges") > and 0f50a49e3008 ("Revert "PCI: Avoid race while enabling upstream > bridges""). > > It's not trivial, but if you figure out a good way to fix this, I'd be > thrilled. > Bjorn, Srinath, are you aware of anyone working on an updated fix for this one? Marta