Re: [PATCH] PCI: Print a debug message on PCI device release

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Thu May 27 2021 - 19:58:50 EST


On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> Commit 62795041418d ("PCI: enhance physical slot debug information")
> added a debug print on releasing the PCI slot and another message on
> destroying it. There is however no debug print on releasing the PCI
> device structure itself and even with closely looking at the kernel log
> during hotplug testing, I overlooked several missing pci_dev_put() calls
> for way too long. So let's add a debug print in pci_release_dev() making
> it much easier to spot when the PCI device structure is not released
> when it is supposed to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to pci/enumeration for v5.14, thanks!

> ---
> drivers/pci/probe.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index 953f15abc850..3e3669a00a2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -2226,6 +2226,7 @@ static void pci_release_dev(struct device *dev)
> pci_bus_put(pci_dev->bus);
> kfree(pci_dev->driver_override);
> bitmap_free(pci_dev->dma_alias_mask);
> + dev_dbg(dev, "device released\n");
> kfree(pci_dev);
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>