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From: tingwei@codeaurora•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, gregkh@linuxfoundation•org,
	coresight@lists•linaro.org, rdunlap@infradead•org,
	ykaukab@suse•de, linux@armlinux•org.uk, jinlmao@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: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:19:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c29e1108b47c63ce77359cae8dbc0c82@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34a3a704-293c-54ac-edfa-17715f419fa4@arm.com>

On 2020-07-22 18:51, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 07/22/2020 11:49 AM, 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 
>> ?
> 
> Also, logically this refcount solution patch must be applied before
> the drivers are made modules to prevent breaking bisection failures.
> So, please re-order the patches in the series to take that into
> consideration.
> 
> Suzuki

That's good point.  I'll reorder them in next revision.

Thanks,
Tingwei

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-23  0:21 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
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 [this message]
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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