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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] of/platform: add of_platform_probe
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:35:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150911153530.GM20922@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAObsKAaxBJUH=u-2VSDGUQ6CsqpATpF-48LHEtvd3FD3_prsQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:06:07PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> Once a platform device (with the platform bus as its parent) is
> retrieved from the deferred queue, both the parent and the device in
> question are locked (because of the USB stuff mentioned below). If
> that device depends on another device whose parent is the platform bus
> and we try to probe it (useless, but I don't see a good way of
> avoiding it) then we'll deadlock when device_attach locks that device.

Ugh, that's nasty.  Trying to fix this would most likely devolve into
trying to shove things onto the deferred list in the right order but
that's definitely a very different solution with problems.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-11 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-06 14:11 [PATCH v3 0/18] On-demand device probing Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 01/18] platform: delay OF device-driver matches until late_initcall Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 20:19   ` Rob Herring
2015-08-07  7:11     ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-07 17:06       ` Grygorii Strashko
2015-08-09 13:03         ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-10 10:25           ` Mark Brown
2015-09-04  5:46             ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-14 19:09           ` Grygorii Strashko
2015-09-04  8:05             ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 02/18] of/platform: add of_platform_probe Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-07 12:19   ` Mark Brown
2015-08-11  9:37     ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-09-07 12:31       ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-09-11  9:57         ` Mark Brown
2015-09-11 14:06           ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-09-11 15:35             ` Mark Brown [this message]
2015-09-15 13:08               ` Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 03/18] gpio: Probe GPIO drivers on demand Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 04/18] gpio: Probe pinctrl devices " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 05/18] regulator: core: Reduce critical area in _regulator_get Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-07 12:07   ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 06/18] regulator: core: Probe regulators on demand Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-07 12:09   ` Mark Brown
2015-08-07 13:58     ` Rob Herring
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 07/18] drm: Probe panels " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 08/18] drm/tegra: Probe dpaux devices " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 09/18] i2c: core: Probe i2c adapters and " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] pwm: Probe PWM chip " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 11/18] backlight: Probe backlight " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] usb: phy: Probe phy " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] clk: Probe clk providers " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 14/18] pinctrl: Probe pinctrl devices " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 15/18] phy: core: Probe phy providers " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 16/18] dma: of: Probe DMA controllers " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 17/18] power-supply: Probe power supplies " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] ASoC: core: Probe components " Tomeu Vizoso
2015-08-06 20:14 ` [PATCH v3 0/18] On-demand device probing Rob Herring
2015-08-07  6:55   ` Tomeu Vizoso

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