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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pci: Introduce __pci_reset_function_locked to be used when holding device_lock.



On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:32:25AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:06:46 -0500
> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The use case of this is when a driver wants to call FLR when a device
> > is attached to it using the SysFS "bind" or "unbind" functionality.
> > 
> > The call chain when a user does "bind" looks as so:
> > 
> >  echo "0000:01.07.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/XXXX/bind
> > 
> > and ends up calling:
> >   driver_bind:
> >     device_lock(dev);  <=== TAKES LOCK
> >     XXXX_probe:
> >          .. pci_enable_device()
> >          ...__pci_reset_function(), which calls
> >                  pci_dev_reset(dev, 0):
> >                         if (!0) {
> >                                 device_lock(dev) <==== DEADLOCK
> 
> I have these two in my -next branch now; but you could also push them
> through the Xen tree.  If you have other deps and the Xen tree would be
> easier, just let me know and I'll drop them.

Thanks! Lets keep them in your tree.

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