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From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
To: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@mailbox.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Replace pci_dev->is_busmaster with accessors
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:28:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alOkgrK7Fm6opB4r@wunner.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260711-pci-dev-flags-v1-1-2fcf2811138c@mailbox.org>

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 05:21:06PM +0200, Maurice Hieronymus wrote:
> `is_busmaster` is one bit of a ~60-bit C bitfield in `struct pci_dev`.
> Bits sharing a bitfield word must not be modified concurrently, but its
> writers take no common lock: `pci_set_master()` can run without the
> device lock (e.g. from runtime PM resume paths), `pci_disable_device()`
> clears the bit, and other bits in the same word are written from
> entirely different contexts, e.g. `broken_parity_status` from sysfs.
> Concurrent read-modify-write cycles of the shared word can then lose
> updates.
> 
> Move `is_busmaster` into a new `flags` bitmap modified with atomic
> bitops and accessed through generated accessor functions, following the
> example of commit a7cc262a1135 ("driver core: Replace dev->offline +
> ->offline_disabled with accessors"). More bitfield flags can follow the
> same pattern later.

We already have the priv_flags member in struct pci_dev,
please use that instead of adding another one for the same purpose.

Thanks,

Lukas

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-12 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-11 15:21 [PATCH 0/2] PCI: Convert bitfield flags to atomic accessors Maurice Hieronymus
2026-07-11 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Replace pci_dev->is_busmaster with accessors Maurice Hieronymus
2026-07-12 14:28   ` Lukas Wunner [this message]
2026-07-12 15:21   ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-11 15:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] PCI: Replace pci_dev->broken_parity_status " Maurice Hieronymus
2026-07-12 14:55   ` Lukas Wunner
2026-07-12 15:21   ` sashiko-bot

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