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Commit c2be6f93 authored by Yijing Wang's avatar Yijing Wang Committed by Bjorn Helgaas
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PCI: pciehp: Use per-slot workqueues to avoid deadlock

When we have a hotplug-capable PCIe port with a second hotplug-capable
PCIe port below it, removing the device below the upstream port causes
a deadlock.

The deadlock happens because we use the pciehp_wq workqueue to run
pciehp_power_thread(), which uses pciehp_disable_slot() to remove devices
below the upstream port.  When we remove the downstream PCIe port, we call
pciehp_remove(), the pciehp driver's .remove() method.  That calls
flush_workqueue(pciehp_wq), which deadlocks because the
pciehp_power_thread() work item is still running.

This patch avoids the deadlock by creating a workqueue for every PCIe port
and removing the single shared workqueue.

Here's the call path that leads to the deadlock:

  pciehp_queue_pushbutton_work
    queue_work(pciehp_wq)                   # queue pciehp_power_thread
    ...

  pciehp_power_thread
    pciehp_disable_slot
      remove_board
	pciehp_unconfigure_device
	  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
	    ...
	      pciehp_remove                 # pciehp driver .remove method
		pciehp_release_ctrl
		  pcie_cleanup_slot
		    flush_workqueue(pciehp_wq)

This is fairly urgent because it can be caused by simply unplugging a
Thunderbolt adapter, as reported by Daniel below.

[bhelgaas: changelog]
Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMVG2ssiRgcTD1bej2tkUUfsWmpL5eNtPcNif9va2-Gzb2u8nQ@mail.gmail.com


Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarDaniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent d1c3ed66
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