Re: [PATCH 0/3] PCI: hv: clean-up and 2 fixes to the hot-remove case

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Wed Nov 16 2016 - 17:49:09 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:16:22AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> PATCH 1 is just a clean-up. There should be no functional change.
>
> PATCH 2 and 3 are for device hot-remove case.
> Currently the driver will stop working or even cause panic, if we do
> hot add/remove quickly a few times. With the 2 patches, everything works
> reliably in my tests now.
>
> There can be still a potential issue with hot-remove when we unload
> the driver at the same time. That would require more work of proper
> synchronization among the 3 paths: the .probe/.remove, the channel callback,
> and the offloaded hv_pci_devices_present()/hv_eject_device_work().
>
> But for now, PATCH 2 and 3 do improve the situation a lot.
>
> Dexuan Cui (3):
> PCI: hv: use the correct buffer size in new_pcichild_device()
> PCI: hv: fix hv_pci_remove() for hot-remove
> PCI: hv: delete the device earlier from hbus->children for hot-remove
>
> drivers/pci/host/pci-hyperv.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

I applied all three of these to pci/host-hv for v4.10, thanks!

Jake, I converted your "looks good to me" to Reviewed-by tags.

K. Y., I added your acks on 2 & 3. If you acked 1, I missed it.