Re: [driver-core PATCH v7 2/9] driver core: Establish clear order of operations for deferred probe and remove

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:07 AM Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 17:57 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
[..]
> > I think the flag should be named "cancel" and set it in the
> > device_del() path. Otherwise this is encoding code flow state in the
> > struct rather than device-state that the code needs to comprehend.
>
> Instead of "cancel" what would you think of "dead"? In my mind once we
> call device_del we are essentially working with a dead device object so
> that might make more sense in terms of a state rather than "cancel"
> which doesn't really tell us what should be canceled.

That sounds good to me.

> Looking over the code I could probably set it before we start calling
> the notifiers for BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE. The only thing I am not sure
> about is if we would need to add any sort of synchronization primitives
> around it.
>

I think it needs to be something like a barrier:

    dev->dead;
    device_lock();
    device_unlock();

...where you can be sure that anyone after that device_unlock() has
acted on dev->dead, or will see dev->dead.