Re: [RFC PATCH] ata: piix: wait for end of asynchronous probing before

[Tejun Heo]

(cc'ing Greg and Rob)

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 06:45:04PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE under qemu give me a WARN() trace.
> Waiting for the end of the ATA RESET seems to clean the issue.
> But I am not sure if my solution and the way to solve it are correct.
> 
> Regards
> 
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> From b2d097130a9d67529075f6e3c3d9552ac5415d18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:50:02 +0200
> Subject: [RFC PATCH] ata: piix: wait for end of asynchronous probing before
>  removing
> 
> Under qemu I got the following trace with CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE
> [    1.092021] ata_piix 0000:00:01.1: version 2.13
> [    1.093277] scsi host0: ata_piix
> [    1.093720] scsi host1: ata_piix
> [    1.094152] ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc080 irq 14
> [    1.094902] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc088 irq 15
> [    1.252998] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    1.253799] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/ata/libata-core.c:6482 ata_host_detach+0x148/0x150

I don't think it's correct to try to remove the driver while async
probing is in progress and we shouldn't work around it from individual
drivers.  I think we already have enough async barriers to prevents
this under normal operation - there's full synchronization during boot
before control gets passed to userland and module unloading does full
async flushing too.  What we should do, probably, is to make the debug
code do full async flush before test unloading the driver.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun