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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2019-07-17 18:07:53 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2019-07-18 16:21:01 -0700
commit00289cd87676e14913d2d8492d1ce05c4baafdae (patch)
treeb4ab4a8ab2c3c582e8cb8afffc2061287d794555 /include
parentd1fdb6d8f6a4109a4263176c84b899076a5f8008 (diff)
drivers/base: Introduce kill_device()
The libnvdimm subsystem arranges for devices to be destroyed as a result of a sysfs operation. Since device_unregister() cannot be called from an actively running sysfs attribute of the same device libnvdimm arranges for device_unregister() to be performed in an out-of-line async context. The driver core maintains a 'dead' state for coordinating its own racing async registration / de-registration requests. Rather than add local 'dead' state tracking infrastructure to libnvdimm device objects, export the existing state tracking via a new kill_device() helper. The kill_device() helper simply marks the device as dead, i.e. that it is on its way to device_del(), or returns that the device was already dead. This can be used in advance of calling device_unregister() for subsystems like libnvdimm that might need to handle multiple user threads racing to delete a device. This refactoring does not change any behavior, but it is a pre-requisite for follow-on fixes and therefore marked for -stable. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Fixes: 4d88a97aa9e8 ("libnvdimm, nvdimm: dimm driver and base libnvdimm device-driver...") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156341207332.292348.14959761496009347574.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index e85264fb6616..0da5c67f6be1 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -1373,6 +1373,7 @@ extern int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device *dev);
*/
extern struct device *get_device(struct device *dev);
extern void put_device(struct device *dev);
+extern bool kill_device(struct device *dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
extern int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev);