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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@meta.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, alex@shazbot.org, lukas@wunner.de,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, guojinhui.liam@bytedance.com,
	ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: remove slot specific lock/unlock and save/restore
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:16:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXvOOjZQ_EmZDgVs@kbusch-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260129202750.GA476192@bhelgaas>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 02:27:50PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> An alternate path would be to:
> 
>   - keep Jinhui's patch that fixes the pci_slot_trylock() error path
>     (same as your 1/1 patch)
> 
>   - apply your 2/2 patch [1] to fix pci_slot_lock(),
>     pci_slot_unlock(), and pci_slot_trylock() to lock the bridge
>     (after accounting for the mistaken merge)
> 
>   - finally, rebase *this* patch on top to remove the pci_slot_lock(),
>     pci_slot_unlock(), and pci_slot_trylock() that have just been
>     fixed
> 
> The advantage would be that if there's any issue or objection to
> completely removing pci_slot_lock() et al, we could drop or defer that
> while still fixing the locking issues.

Sounds good. Another bonus is we can be more cautious for stable
backports since the first two are clear isolated bug fixes. I'll prepare
a rebased version with the proposed sequence.

      reply	other threads:[~2026-01-29 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-29 16:09 [PATCH] pci: remove slot specific lock/unlock and save/restore Keith Busch
2026-01-29 20:27 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2026-01-29 21:16   ` Keith Busch [this message]

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