Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966067Ab3DQRcr (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:32:47 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f169.google.com ([209.85.217.169]:57280 "EHLO mail-lb0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754425Ab3DQRcq (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:32:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:32:42 +0400 From: Artem Savkov To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Li Zhong , linux-next list , Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci_bus_add_device() should succeed even if creating sysfs files fails Message-ID: <20130417173229.GA23950@thinkpad.lan> References: <1366196798-15929-1-git-send-email-artem.savkov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2468 Lines: 53 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:42:12AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Artem Savkov wrote: > >> Introduced in cc8f7f9e4e79a0940af6b4b6fdfbcf18a03aa9f4 > >> ("PCI: Fix __must_check annotation on pci_create_sysfs_dev_files()") > >> > >> pci_bus_add_device() should not fail to add device if > >> pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() call fails, as sysfs files are not critical. > >> > >> pci_sysfs_init() is a "late_initcall" and is called after acpi_init, so > >> pci_bus_add_device() fails to create devices during boot resulting in a > >> bug during acpi_init. It is safe not to create sysfs_dev_files in > >> pci_bus_add_device() as they are later created in pci_sysfs_ini(). > >> ... > > > Sorry for the breakage. Thanks for the report, analysis, and fix. > > I'll fix this up > > It's not clear to me what the best fix is, so I just dropped my original patch. > > It's clearly wrong to have __must_check on the > pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() definition, because it doesn't do > anything there. > > We could simply drop the __must_check altogether, as you suggest, but > I'd rather structure things to avoid the failure in the first place > rather than ignoring an error. > > It would be ideal if we could get rid of the pci_sysfs_init() > late_initcall and just make the pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() from > pci_bus_add_device() work all the time, even at boot-time. I didn't > look hard enough to figure out why this needs to be a late_initcall. > In any case, we can figure this out later, after we merge the current > stuff for v3.10. It looks like late_initcall is either due to "it belongs there" or maybe pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() was initially only called from pci_sysfs_init() and pci subsystem should have been initialized before this for devices to be there to add to sysfs. I've tried changing late_initcall to subsys_initcall and didn't see any immediate problems. Anyway even with things properly aligned it still sounds like a bad idea to fail pci_bus_add_device() call just because creating sysfs files fails. Some kind of warning should be enough. -- Regards, Artem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/