[Cc: adding linux-scsi for the MPT changes, Ben for powerpc, Matthew for platform/x86 and Konrad for Xen] On Friday, December 06, 2013 02:21:50 AM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [...] > > OK > > To be a bit more constructive, as the next step I'd try to use > pci_remove_rescan_mutex to serialize all PCI hotplug operations (as I said > above) without making the other changes made by my patch. Does that sound > reasonable? Well, no answer here, so as a followup, a series implementing that idea follows. I *hope* I found all of the places that need to be synchronized vs the bus rescan and device removal that can be triggered via sysfs, but I might overlook something. Also in some cases I wasn't quite sure how much stuff to put under the lock, because said stuff is not exactly straightforward. Enjoy! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html