> From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2023 1:23 AM > ... > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:40:35PM -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > This reverts commit d6af2ed29c7c1c311b96dac989dcb991e90ee195. > > > > The statement "the hv_pci_bus_exit() call releases structures of all its > > child devices" in commit d6af2ed29c7c is not true: in the path > > hv_pci_probe() -> hv_pci_enter_d0() -> hv_pci_bus_exit(hdev, true): the > > parameter "keep_devs" is true, so hv_pci_bus_exit() does *not* release the > > child "struct hv_pci_dev *hpdev" that is created earlier in > > pci_devices_present_work() -> new_pcichild_device(). > > > > The commit d6af2ed29c7c was originally made in July 2020 for RHEL 7.7, > > where the old version of hv_pci_bus_exit() was used; when the commit > > was > > rebased and merged into the upstream, people didn't notice that it's > > not really necessary. The commit itself doesn't cause any issue, but it > > makes hv_pci_probe() more complicated. Revert it to facilitate some > > upcoming changes to hv_pci_probe(). > > If d6af2ed29c7c does not cause any issue this is not a fix and should be > merged only with subsequent changes. d6af2ed29c7c does not cause any functional issue, but it makes the code less readable, and so I'd like to not merge this patch with patch 5 -- this way people can easily know what the real change is in patch 5.
