Re: [PATCH v2] drivers-core: move the calling to device_pm_removebehind the calling to bus_remove_device

From: Yanmin Zhang
Date: Wed Oct 24 2012 - 20:20:41 EST


On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 00:33 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 15:13:27 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:46:19PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 of October 2012 23:28:08 zhanglong wrote:
> > > > We hit an hang issue when removing a mmc device on Medfield Android phone by sysfs interface.
> > > >
> > > > device_pm_remove will call pm_runtime_remove which would disable
> > > > runtime PM of the device. After that pm_runtime_get* or
> > > > pm_runtime_put* will be ignored. So if we disable the runtime PM
> > > > before device really be removed, drivers' _remove callback may
> > > > access HW even pm_runtime_get* fails. That is bad.
> > > >
> > > > Consider below call sequence when removing a device:
> > > > device_del => device_pm_remove
> > > > => class_intf->remove_dev(dev, class_intf) => pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync
> > > > => bus_remove_device => device_release_driver => pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync
> > > >
> > > > remove_dev might call pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync.
> > > > Then, generic device_release_driver also calls pm_runtime_get_sync/put_sync.
> > > > Since device_del => device_pm_remove firstly, later _get_sync wouldn't really wake up the device.
> > > >
> > > > I git log -p to find the patch which moves the calling to device_pm_remove ahead.
> > > > It's below patch:
> > > >
> > > > commit 775b64d2b6ca37697de925f70799c710aab5849a
> > > > Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Sat Jan 12 20:40:46 2008 +0100
> > > >
> > > > PM: Acquire device locks on suspend
> > > >
> > > > This patch reorganizes the way suspend and resume notifications are
> > > > sent to drivers. The major changes are that now the PM core acquires
> > > > every device semaphore before calling the methods, and calls to
> > > > device_add() during suspends will fail, while calls to device_del()
> > > > during suspends will block.
> > > >
> > > > It also provides a way to safely remove a suspended device with the
> > > > help of the PM core, by using the device_pm_schedule_removal() callback
> > > > introduced specifically for this purpose, and updates two drivers (msr
> > > > and cpuid) that need to use it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > As device_pm_schedule_removal is deleted by another patch, we need also revert other parts of the patch,
> > > > i.e. move the calling of device_pm_remove after the calling to bus_remove_device.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: LongX Zhang <longx.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Greg, do you see any potential problems with this patch?
> >
> > No, no objection from me:
> >
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> OK, thanks!
>
> Applied to linux-pm.git/linux-next as v3.8 material.
Rafael,

As usual, I really appreciate it!

Yanmin


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