RE: [PATCH v3 6/6] PCI: hv: Use async probing to reduce boot time

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> From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 1:23 AM
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:40:37PM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > Commit 414428c5da1c ("PCI: hv: Lock PCI bus on device eject") added
> > pci_lock_rescan_remove() and pci_unlock_rescan_remove() in
> > create_root_hv_pci_bus() and in hv_eject_device_work() to address the
> > race between create_root_hv_pci_bus() and hv_eject_device_work(), but it
> > turns that grabing the pci_rescan_remove_lock mutex is not enough:
> > refer to the earlier fix "PCI: hv: Add a per-bus mutex state_lock".
> 
> This is meaningless for a commit log reader, there is nothing to
> refer to.
Correct. Because patch 5
[PATCH v3 5/6] PCI: hv: Add a per-bus mutex state_lock
has not been in any upstream tree, so I don't have a commit id yet.
 
> > Now with hbus->state_lock and other fixes, the race is resolved, so
> 
> "other fixes" is meaningless too.
Ditto. 
 
> Explain the problem and how you fix it (this patch should be split
> because the Subject does not represent what you are doing precisely,
> see below).
Ok, I will better explain the boot time issue.

> > remove pci_{lock,unlock}_rescan_remove() in create_root_hv_pci_bus():
> > this removes the serialization in hv_pci_probe() and hence allows
> > async-probing (PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS) to work.
> >
> > Add the async-probing flag to hv_pci_drv.
> 
> Adding the asynchronous probing should be a separate patch and
> I don't think you should send it to stable kernels straight away
> because a) it is not a fix b) it can trigger further regressions.
Agreed. I'll remove the line "Cc: stable".

> > pci_{lock,unlock}_rescan_remove() in hv_eject_device_work() and in
> > hv_pci_remove() are still kept: according to the comment before
> > drivers/pci/probe.c: static DEFINE_MUTEX(pci_rescan_remove_lock),
> > "PCI device removal routines should always be executed under this mutex".
> 
> This patch should be split, first thing is to fix and document what
> you are changing for pci_{lock,unlock}_rescan_remove() then add
> asynchronous probing.
> 
> Lorenzo
Ok, I'll split this patch into two.

Thanks for reviewing the patch. 
Can you please give an "Acked-by" or "Reviewed-by" to patch 1~5 
if they look good to you? The first 5 patches have been there for a
while, and they already got Michael's Reviewed-by. 

I hope the first 5 patches can go through the hyperv-fixes branch in
the hyperv tree
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux.git/log/?h=hyperv-fixes
since they are specific to Hyper-V.

After the first 5 patches are in, I can refer to the commit IDs, and I
will split this patch (patch 6).

Thanks,
Dexuan





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