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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:33:14 +0100
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com>
Cc: "Hook, Gary" <ghook@amd.com>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Can a driver->probe be called for two devices at the same time (WAS:
 Re: [PATCH] crypto/ccp: don't disable interrupts while setting up debugfs)
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On 2018-02-27 11:08:56 [-0600], Gary R Hook wrote:
> That issue remains unclear to me: Are probes of PCI devices guaranteed to be
> serialized? Observations on my CCPs says that they occur in order, but I
> don't know for certain that serialization is guaranteed.
> 
> Is there a definitive statement on this somewhere that I just don't know
> about?

So the question if a driver can probe two devices simultaneously. I'm
not sure. We have PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS which defers the probe to
worker. However I have no idea if two of those worker can run at the
same time.

> I think a mutex would be just fine; I got this wrong, clearly. Let me work
> up a patch using a mutex.

I've sent one. Why not just ack it and be done with it?

> Gary

Sebastian