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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, gregkh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] of: fix race when matching drivers
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:21:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110518192100.28986.94335.stgit@ponder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518185751.28986.69446.stgit@ponder>

From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>

If two drivers are probing devices at the same time, both will write
their match table result to the dev->of_match cache at the same time.

Only write the result if the device matches.

In a thread titled "SBus devices sometimes detected, sometimes not",
Meelis reported his SBus hme was not detected about 50% of the time.
>From the debug suggested by Grant it was obvious another driver matched
some devices between the call to match the hme and the hme discovery
failling.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
[grant.likely: modified to only call of_match_device() once]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
---
 include/linux/of_device.h |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/of_device.h b/include/linux/of_device.h
index 8bfe6c1..b33d688 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_device.h
@@ -21,8 +21,12 @@ extern void of_device_make_bus_id(struct device *dev);
 static inline int of_driver_match_device(struct device *dev,
 					 const struct device_driver *drv)
 {
-	dev->of_match = of_match_device(drv->of_match_table, dev);
-	return dev->of_match != NULL;
+	const struct of_device_id *match;
+
+	match = of_match_device(drv->of_match_table, dev);
+	if (match)
+		dev->of_match = match;
+	return match != NULL;
 }
 
 extern struct platform_device *of_dev_get(struct platform_device *dev);


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 19:20 [git pull][PATCH 0/2] Fix regression caused by addition of 'of_match' Grant Likely
2011-05-18 19:21 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2011-05-18 19:54   ` [PATCH 1/2] of: fix race when matching drivers Greg KH
2011-05-18 21:03   ` David Miller
2011-05-18 19:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] drivercore: revert addition of of_match to struct device Grant Likely
2011-05-18 19:55   ` Greg KH
2011-05-18 21:03   ` David Miller

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