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* [PATCH v5 00/16] PCI: let the core manage slot names
@ 2008-10-09  4:46 Alex Chiang
  2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] PCI Hotplug core: add 'name' param pci_hp_register interface Alex Chiang
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Alex Chiang @ 2008-10-09  4:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jbarnes, kristen.c.accardi, matthew, kaneshige.kenji, linux-pci,
	linux-kernel

Hi all,

This is v5 of the series that implements a series of changes
that allows the PCI core to manage slot names, rather than
individual hotplug drivers.

Thanks again to Kenji-san for continuing to point out that my
previous attempts were racy and had horrible, complicated code. :)
And thanks to Willy for reviewing my poor attempt at introducing
locking.

I've decided to do them both a favor and take a new approach that
does not change any locking semantics in any of the existing interfaces
today (pci_hp_register, pci_hp_deregister, pci_create_slot).

Keep in mind that the problems we're trying to solve are:

	- possible duplicate slot names from firmware
	- allow hotplug drivers to override detection driver slot names

The race that Kenji-san points out occurs during slot creation, where
both a detection driver and hotplug driver try to create a slot at
the same time, with different names.

The solution is to combine slot creation _and_ slot rename into one
atomic operation via an updated pci_create_slot() API. pci_create_slot
is already serialized, so that's a good start.

We add a 'rename' parameter to pci_create_slot. The hotplug drivers set
it to 1. The detection drivers set it to 0. Now, when trying to create
a new slot:

	- check to see if it's already been created
	- if yes, and we want a rename, then go ahead and rename it
	- if yes, and we don't care about the name, then just return
	- if no, then create the slot normally

This logic is fully described in the changelog in patch 04/16. I believe
it is a much simpler approach than the earlier crap I was producing.

I tested this series with the pci_slot driver and fakephp dup_slots=1
with multiple loads and unloads in different order, and it all seemed
to work.

I _hope_ this is the last round. ;)

Thanks!

/ac

v4 -> v5:
	- add 'rename' param to pci_create_slot
	- make use of 'rename' param in pci_create_slot
	- remove v4 serialization
	- remove crap false name collsion code from v2 and v3
	- rpaphp uses kstrdup (Thanks to Pekka Enberg for suggestion)

v3 -> v4:
        - Do not access hotplug_slot_name() before name initialization
        - Serialize pci_hp_register/deregister

v2 -> v3:
        - incorporate Willy's code review comments
        - fix possible memory leak, pointed out by Rolf Eike Beer
        - make false name collision detection work for empty slots
        - add 'dup_slots' module_param to fakephp to help debug all this ;)

v1 -> v2:
        - fix possible false name collisions

---

Alex Chiang (16):
      PCI Hotplug: fakephp: add duplicate slot name debugging
      PCI: Hotplug core: remove 'name'
      PCI: shcphp: remove 'name' parameter
      PCI: SGI Hotplug: stop managing bss_hotplug_slot->name
      PCI: rpaphp: kmalloc/kfree slot->name directly
      PCI: pciehp: remove 'name' parameter
      PCI: ibmphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name
      PCI: fakephp: remove 'name' parameter
      PCI: cpqphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name
      PCI: cpci_hotplug: stop managing hotplug_slot->name
      PCI: acpiphp: remove 'name' parameter
      PCI, PCI Hotplug: introduce slot_name helpers
      PCI: prevent duplicate slot names
      PCI: update pci_create_slot() to take a 'rename' param
      PCI: rename pci_update_slot_number to pci_renumber_slot
      PCI Hotplug core: add 'name' param pci_hp_register interface


 drivers/acpi/pci_slot.c                 |    2 
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp.h           |    9 +-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c      |   32 ++++---
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug.h      |    6 +
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_core.c |   75 ++++++----------
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_pci.c  |    4 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp.h            |   13 +--
 drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_core.c       |   43 ++++-----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/fakephp.c           |   26 ++++-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp.h            |    5 -
 drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c       |   19 +---
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c  |   30 ++----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp.h            |    9 +-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_core.c       |   49 ++++------
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_ctrl.c       |   53 ++++++-----
 drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c        |    1 
 drivers/pci/hotplug/rpaphp_slot.c       |   10 +-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/sgi_hotplug.c       |   18 +---
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp.h            |    9 +-
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_core.c       |   52 ++++-------
 drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_ctrl.c       |   48 +++++-----
 drivers/pci/slot.c                      |  150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 include/linux/pci.h                     |    9 +-
 include/linux/pci_hotplug.h             |   11 +-
 24 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 324 deletions(-)


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2008-10-09  4:46 [PATCH v5 00/16] PCI: let the core manage slot names Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] PCI Hotplug core: add 'name' param pci_hp_register interface Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] PCI: rename pci_update_slot_number to pci_renumber_slot Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] PCI: update pci_create_slot() to take a 'rename' param Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 04/16] PCI: prevent duplicate slot names Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  5:31   ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-10-09  5:56     ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-09 12:32       ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-10-10  2:10         ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-10  2:11           ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-10  2:12           ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-10  4:43           ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-10-10  5:27             ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-10  8:11               ` Kenji Kaneshige
2008-10-10 21:29                 ` Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:46 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] PCI, PCI Hotplug: introduce slot_name helpers Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] PCI: acpiphp: remove 'name' parameter Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] PCI: cpci_hotplug: stop managing hotplug_slot->name Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] PCI: cpqphp: " Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] PCI: fakephp: remove 'name' parameter Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] PCI: ibmphp: stop managing hotplug_slot->name Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] PCI: pciehp: remove 'name' parameter Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] PCI: rpaphp: kmalloc/kfree slot->name directly Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] PCI: SGI Hotplug: stop managing bss_hotplug_slot->name Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] PCI: shcphp: remove 'name' parameter Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] PCI: Hotplug core: remove 'name' Alex Chiang
2008-10-09  4:47 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] PCI Hotplug: fakephp: add duplicate slot name debugging Alex Chiang

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