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When the last device in an eeh_pe is removed the eeh_pe structure itself (and any empty parents) are freed since they are no longer needed. This results in a crash when a hotplug driver is involved since the following may occur: 1. Device is suprise removed. 2. Driver performs an MMIO, which fails and queues and eeh_event. 3. Hotplug driver receives a hotplug interrupt and removes any pci_devs that were under the slot. 4. pci_dev is torn down and the eeh_pe is freed. 5. The EEH event handler thread processes the eeh_event and crashes since the eeh_pe pointer in the eeh_event structure is no longer valid. Crashing is generally considered poor form. Instead of doing that use the fact PEs are marked as EEH_PE_INVALID to keep them around until the end of the recovery cycle, at which point we can safely prune any empty PEs. Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190903101605.2890-2-oohall@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.