On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 2:19 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 09:04:02AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > > The dummy vio_bus_device creates the /sys/devices/vio directory, which > > contains real vio devices under it; since it represents itself as having > > a bus = &vio_bus_type, its /sys/devices/vio/uevent does call the bus's > > .uevent function, vio_hotplug(), and as that function won't find a real > > device for the dummy vio_dev, it will return -ENODEV. > > > > One of the main users of the uevent node is udevadm, e.g. when it is called > > with 'udevadm trigger --devices'. Up until recently, it would ignore any > > errors returned when writing to devices' uevent file, but it was recently > > changed to start returning error if it gets an error writing to any uevent > > file: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/97afc0351a96e0daa83964df33937967c75c644f > > > > since the /sys/devices/vio/uevent file has always returned ENODEV from > > any write to it, this now causes the udevadm trigger command to return > > an error. This may be fixed in udevadm to ignore ENODEV errors, but the > > vio driver should still be fixed. > > > > This patch changes the arch/powerpc/platform/pseries/vio.c 'dummy' > > parent device into a real dummy device with no .bus, so its uevent > > file will stop returning ENODEV and simply do nothing and return 0. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstr...@canonical.com> > > --- > > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c | 11 ++++------- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c > > index 79e2287991db..63bc16631680 100644 > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c > > @@ -32,11 +32,8 @@ > > #include <asm/page.h> > > #include <asm/hvcall.h> > > > > -static struct vio_dev vio_bus_device = { /* fake "parent" device */ > > - .name = "vio", > > - .type = "", > > - .dev.init_name = "vio", > > - .dev.bus = &vio_bus_type, > > +static struct device vio_bus = { > > + .init_name = "vio", > > Eeek, no! Why are you creating a static device that will then be > reference counted? Not nice :(
so, I looked again and it seems quite a few places appear to do exactly this, is it something that should be fixed? $ git grep 'static struct device [^*{]*{' arch/arm/kernel/dma-isa.c:static struct device isa_dma_dev = { arch/arm/mach-rpc/dma.c:static struct device isa_dma_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2410.c:static struct device s3c2410_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2412.c:static struct device s3c2412_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2416.c:static struct device s3c2416_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2440.c:static struct device s3c2440_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2442.c:static struct device s3c2442_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/s3c2443.c:static struct device s3c2443_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c:static struct device s3c64xx_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c:static struct device s3c6400_dev = { arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6410.c:static struct device s3c6410_dev = { arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c:static struct device gio_bus = { arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c:static struct device root = { arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c:static struct device ps3_system_bus = { arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c:static struct device ibmebus_bus_device = { /* fake "parent" device */ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c:static struct device vio_bus = { arch/um/drivers/virtio_uml.c:static struct device vu_cmdline_parent = { drivers/base/isa.c:static struct device isa_bus = { drivers/block/rbd.c:static struct device rbd_root_dev = { drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c:static struct device ttm_drm_class_device = { drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c:static struct device iio_evgen_dev = { drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c:static struct device iio_sysfs_trig_dev = { drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c:static struct device gru_device = { drivers/nubus/bus.c:static struct device nubus_parent = { drivers/sh/maple/maple.c:static struct device maple_bus = { drivers/sh/superhyway/superhyway.c:static struct device superhyway_bus_device = { drivers/soc/fsl/qe/qe_ic.c:static struct device device_qe_ic = { drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c:static struct device vm_cmdline_parent = { kernel/time/clockevents.c:static struct device tick_bc_dev = { kernel/time/clocksource.c:static struct device device_clocksource = { > > What's wrong with a simple call to device_create() for your "fake" > device you want to make here? That's what it is there for :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h