Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix oops in pcibios_release_device() after pcibios_free_controller()

On 07/12/2016 08:07 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:

Can you clarify which are the devices that should be tracked w/ krefs to
the PHB?

Last night I had forgotten about the fundamental point of krefs - track 
references to pointers - and this answers the question.

I'm looking at the holders of pointers to the phb struct, and it seems
I wasn't too far off w/ the child buses and devices idea -- as the root 
bus (phb->bus) is assigned the phb pointer in the bus->sysdata field,
and it's inherited from parent by child buses and devices.

I'll continue here. Comments always welcome.

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center