linux/drivers/base
Rafael J. Wysocki 4f3549d72d Driver core: Add offline/online device operations
In some cases, graceful hot-removal of devices is not possible,
although in principle the devices in question support hotplug.
For example, that may happen for the last CPU in the system or
for memory modules holding kernel memory.

In those cases it is nice to be able to check if the given device
can be gracefully hot-removed before triggering a removal procedure
that cannot be aborted or reversed.  Unfortunately, however, the
kernel currently doesn't provide any support for that.

To address that deficiency, introduce support for offline and
online operations that can be performed on devices, respectively,
before a hot-removal and in case when it is necessary (or convenient)
to put a device back online after a successful offline (that has not
been followed by removal).  The idea is that the offline will fail
whenever the given device cannot be gracefully removed from the
system and it will not be allowed to use the device after a
successful offline (until a subsequent online) in analogy with the
existing CPU offline/online mechanism.

For now, the offline and online operations are introduced at the
bus type level, as that should be sufficient for the most urgent use
cases (CPUs and memory modules).  In the future, however, the
approach may be extended to cover some more complicated device
offline/online scenarios involving device drivers etc.

The lock_device_hotplug() and unlock_device_hotplug() functions are
introduced because subsequent patches need to put larger pieces of
code under device_hotplug_lock to prevent race conditions between
device offline and removal from happening.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
2013-05-12 14:14:09 +02:00
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power Merge branch 'pm-assorted' 2013-04-28 01:54:29 +02:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'regmap/topic/range' into regmap-next 2013-04-16 16:05:50 +01:00
attribute_container.c drivers: base: Convert dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to dev_<level>( 2012-10-30 17:38:43 -07:00
base.h driver/base: implement subsys_virtual_register() 2013-03-12 11:36:35 -07:00
bus.c Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2013-04-29 19:07:40 -07:00
class.c driver-core: constify data for class_find_device() 2013-02-06 12:18:56 -08:00
core.c Driver core: Add offline/online device operations 2013-05-12 14:14:09 +02:00
cpu.c numa, cpu hotplug: change links of CPU and node when changing node number by onlining CPU 2013-04-29 15:54:39 -07:00
dd.c PM / Runtime: Idle devices asynchronously after probe|release 2013-04-11 12:42:52 -07:00
devres.c Linux 3.9-rc3 2013-03-17 19:40:50 -07:00
devtmpfs.c driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs change 2013-04-11 11:43:29 -07:00
dma-buf.c dma-buf: Add debugfs support 2013-05-01 16:36:22 +05:30
dma-coherent.c drivers: dma-coherent: Fix typo in dma_mmap_from_coherent documentation 2012-10-23 14:05:32 +02:00
dma-contiguous.c drivers: cma: represent physical addresses as phys_addr_t 2012-12-11 09:28:09 +01:00
dma-mapping.c [media] dma-mapping: fix dma_common_get_sgtable() conditional compilation 2012-11-27 09:42:31 -02:00
driver.c driver core: don't trigger uevent after failure 2012-07-17 10:40:23 -07:00
firmware_class.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Kconfig firmware: Make user-mode helper optional 2013-02-03 17:57:40 -08:00
Makefile drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core 2013-01-23 16:39:51 +01:00
map.c
memory.c mm: Remove unused parameter of pages_correctly_reserved() 2013-04-29 15:54:38 -07:00
module.c driver core: module.c: Use kasprintf 2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
node.c drivers/base/node.c: switch to register_hotmemory_notifier() 2013-04-29 15:54:36 -07:00
pinctrl.c drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core 2013-01-23 16:39:51 +01:00
platform.c driver core: platform.c: fix checkpatch errors and warnings 2013-03-29 09:10:55 -07:00
soc.c mode_t whack-a-mole: ->is_visible() returns umode_t... 2012-05-29 23:28:42 -04:00
syscore.c PM: Reintroduce dropped call to check_wakeup_irqs 2011-07-11 10:51:49 +02:00
topology.c cpu: convert 'cpu' and 'machinecheck' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem 2011-12-21 14:29:42 -08:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00