Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: Add hardware monitoring support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 31 2019 - 09:45:54 EST


On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 07:20:37PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> The nvme_init_identify() can be called multiple time in nvme ctrl's
>> lifetime (e.g 'nvme reset /dev/nvme*' or suspend/resume paths), so
>> should we need to prevent nvme_hwmon_init() from registering hwmon
>> device more than twice?
>>
>> In the nvme thermal zone patchset[1], thernal zone is registered in
>> nvme_init_identify and unregistered in nvme_stop_ctrl().
>>
>
> Doesn't that mean that the initialization should happen in nvme_start_ctrl()
> and not here ?

I think calling it from nvme_init_identify is fine, it just needs to
be in the "if (!ctrl->identified)" section of that function.