Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_lpss: Release Quark MSI vectors on exit
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2017-01-08 16:08:03
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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2017-01-08 16:08:03
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On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 02:24 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 12:19:56AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:quoted
NAK, check the PCI devres code, please.
+Cc: Tejun, Bjorn.
Releasing something through devres that wasn't allocated using a devm_* or pcim_* function isn't expected, and we should fix that instead. pci_free_irq_vectors is _currently_ implemented by calling pci_disable_msi and pci_disable_msix, but there is no guarantee for that in the API.
Your code works by accident, not by design. If you want the resources to be auto-released you need to add a proper pcim_alloc_irq_vectors API.
Though idea sounds sane I disagree this is accidental. The PCI managed
introduction includes among other this one:
+ pcim_enable_device() : after success, all PCI ops become managed
As per commit 9ac7849e35f7 ("devres: device resource management").
Thus, I suppose a new API should follow existing design, or provide a
sane fix. I briefly checked MSI/-X usage and since I'm not so familiar
with the PCI core code, I wouldn't be brave to break it.
Currently I suspect pci_free_irq_vectors() is not friendly with
pcim_release().
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Andy Shevchenko [off-list ref]
Intel Finland Oy