From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm•com>
Cc: tsoni@codeaurora•org, saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora•org,
kim.phillips@arm•com, mathieu.poirier@linaro•org,
alexander.shishkin@linux•intel.com, coresight@lists•linaro.org,
rdunlap@infradead•org, ykaukab@suse•de, linux@armlinux•org.uk,
jinlmao@codeaurora•org, tingwei@codeaurora•org,
leo.yan@linaro•org, linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] coresight: add try_get_module() in coresight_grab_device()
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:48:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200722104859.GA2827860@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ef8d427-23c9-10cd-b337-03ae75476a8c@arm.com>
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Hi Tingwei,
>
> On 07/17/2020 06:45 AM, Tingwei Zhang wrote:
> > When coresight device is in an active session, driver module of
> > that device should not be removed. Use try_get_module() in
> > coresight_grab_device() to prevent module to be unloaded.
> >
>
> Is this really sufficient ? AFAIU, a device could be removed, but the
> module may still be alive due to the refcount on the module. This
> could imply that we have stale pointers in the _path_, which could
> lead to corruption elsewhere. Should we do a get/put_device() instead ?
Remember there are two separate things here, code and data. There are
two different reference counts for them, do not confuse the two.
get/put is needed when you have a reference to the data, module stuff is
when you are calling into code.
But note that you do not always need to grab a reference count to the
module, as long as the module can properly tear the data down when it is
asked to be removed. Look at networking drivers as a great example of
that.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-22 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 5:45 [PATCH v3 00/20] coresight: allow to build coresight as modules Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 01/20] coresight: cpu_debug: add module name in Kconfig Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 02/20] coresight: cpu_debug: define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 03/20] coresight: use IS_ENABLED for CONFIGs that may be modules Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 04/20] coresight: add coresight prefix to barrier_pkt Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 05/20] coresight: export global symbols Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 06/20] Allow to build coresight-stm as a module, for ease of development Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 07/20] coresight: allow etm3x to be built as a module Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 08/20] coresight: allow etm4x " Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 17:05 ` Mike Leach
2020-07-18 3:25 ` tingwei
2020-07-18 17:38 ` Mike Leach
2020-07-21 14:55 ` Mathieu Poirier
2020-07-21 23:22 ` tingwei
2020-07-20 6:58 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2020-07-21 7:03 ` Sai Prakash Ranjan
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 09/20] coresight: allow etb " Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 10/20] coresight: allow tpiu " Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 11/20] coresight: allow tmc " Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 12/20] coresight: remove multiple init calls from funnel driver Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 13/20] coresight: remove multiple init calls from replicator driver Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 14/20] coresight: allow funnel and replicator drivers to be built as modules Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 15/20] coresight: cti: add function to register cti associate ops Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 16/20] coresight: allow cti to be built as a module Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-20 17:00 ` Mike Leach
2020-07-20 21:07 ` Mike Leach
2020-07-21 16:35 ` Mike Leach
2020-07-21 23:27 ` tingwei
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 17/20] coresight: tmc-etr: add function to register catu ops Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 18/20] coresight: allow catu drivers to be built as modules Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 19/20] coresight: add try_get_module() in coresight_grab_device() Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-22 10:49 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-07-22 10:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-07-22 11:26 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-07-23 0:18 ` tingwei
2020-07-23 0:35 ` tingwei
2020-07-22 10:51 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2020-07-23 0:19 ` tingwei
2020-07-23 19:36 ` Mathieu Poirier
2020-07-24 1:17 ` Tingwei Zhang
2020-07-17 5:45 ` [PATCH v3 20/20] coresight: allow the coresight core driver to be built as a module Tingwei Zhang
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