Re: [PATCH] driver core: fix possible missing of device probe

[Ming Lei]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I do not mention threads case in one CPU because the context in
>> which device_add runs will always see the driver added into
>
> There you go again.  Look at my _much_ better description of the problem
> and you'll notice that device_add has nothing to do with this.

OK, I explain it again:

CPU0						CPU1

driver_register
	...
	bus_add_driver
		driver_attach
						device_add(devb)

		klist_add_tail(klist_drivers)

When device_add(devb) is run just after completion of driver_attach
and before klist_add_tail(klist_drivers), the 'devb' can't be probed
in device_add because the driver hasn't been added into bus,
and it wasn't be probed in driver_attach because driver_attach didn't
see the device in the bus.

So the 'devb' will be missed to be probed in the bus, won't it?


Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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