On Wed 31-07-19 15:53:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's document why the lock is not needed in acpi_scan_init(), right now
> this is not really obvious.
> 
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

Thanks!

> ---
> 
> @Andrew, can you drop "drivers/acpi/scan.c: acquire device_hotplug_lock in
> acpi_scan_init()" and add this patch instead? Thanks
> 
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> index 0e28270b0fd8..8444af6cd514 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> @@ -2204,6 +2204,12 @@ int __init acpi_scan_init(void)
>       acpi_gpe_apply_masked_gpes();
>       acpi_update_all_gpes();
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Although we call__add_memory() that is documented to require the
> +      * device_hotplug_lock, it is not necessary here because this is an
> +      * early code when userspace or any other code path cannot trigger
> +      * hotplug/hotunplug operations.
> +      */
>       mutex_lock(&acpi_scan_lock);
>       /*
>        * Enumerate devices in the ACPI namespace.
> -- 
> 2.21.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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