Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755575Ab3HFJhd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 05:37:33 -0400 Received: from li42-95.members.linode.com ([209.123.162.95]:42692 "EHLO li42-95.members.linode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755423Ab3HFJhb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 05:37:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] arm: omap: Proper cleanups for omap_device Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Pantelis Antoniou In-Reply-To: <20130806093356.GA27889@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:37:25 +0300 Cc: Tony Lindgren , Russell King , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt_Coussno?= , Paul Walmsley , Sourav Poddar , Russ Dill , Felipe Balbi , Koen Kooi , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <8C31ED90-E9EF-4264-858A-17CC2536B552@antoniou-consulting.com> References: <1375775624-12250-1-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <1375775624-12250-6-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <20130806093356.GA27889@kroah.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3390 Lines: 105 Hi Greg, On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:53:44AM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> Removing any omap device always resulted in a crash; turns out >> BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE is not the last notifier event sent in the >> course of removing the device, the correct event is >> BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER, which still is not the right place to >> perform the cleanup. A device callback handles that properly, as >> well as making sure the hwmods of the device are shutdown. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou >> --- >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c >> index f33b40c..6dec521 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c >> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_device.c >> @@ -178,6 +178,32 @@ odbfd_exit: >> return ret; >> } >> >> +static void _omap_device_cleanup(struct device *dev) >> +{ >> + struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev); >> + struct omap_device *od; >> + struct omap_hwmod *oh; >> + int i; >> + >> + od = pdev->archdata.od; >> + if (!od) >> + return; >> + >> + for (i = 0; i < od->hwmods_cnt; i++) { >> + >> + oh = od->hwmods[i]; >> + >> + /* shutdown hwmods */ >> + omap_hwmod_shutdown(oh); >> + >> + /* we don't remove clocks cause there's no API to do so */ >> + /* no harm done, since they will not be created next time */ >> + } >> + >> + /* cleanup the structure now */ >> + omap_device_delete(od); >> +} >> + >> static int _omap_device_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, >> unsigned long event, void *dev) >> { >> @@ -185,9 +211,13 @@ static int _omap_device_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, >> struct omap_device *od; >> >> switch (event) { >> - case BUS_NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE: >> + case BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER: >> + /* NOTIFY_DEL_DEVICE is not the right call... >> + * we use a callback here, to make sure no-one is going to >> + * try to use the omap_device data after they're deleted >> + */ >> if (pdev->archdata.od) >> - omap_device_delete(pdev->archdata.od); >> + device_schedule_callback(dev, _omap_device_cleanup); > > Really? This is one sign that you are totally using the driver core > incorrectly. You shouldn't have to rely on notifier callbacks to handle > device removals, your bus code should do that for you directly. > > I don't like this at all, sorry. > Don't shoot the messenger please... This is all about fixing a crash without messing too many things. > And I was waiting for the day when people started to finally remove > platform devices from the system, I always thought it would never work > properly. Good luck with this, I think you have a lot of work ahead of > yourself... > I know. Platform device removal is the wild-wild west... If I had to make a wish, would be to kill platform_device completely and integrate all it's functionality in the the vanilla device. What exactly is a platform device anyway? > greg k-h Regards -- Pantelis -- 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/