[PATCH 06/11] pci/hotplug/pnv-php: Remove erroneous warning

Alastair D'Silva alastair at au1.ibm.com
Tue Sep 10 10:58:47 AEST 2019


On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 17:45 +0200, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> On powernv, when removing a device through hotplug, the following
> warning is logged:
> 
>      Invalid refcount <.> on <...>
> 
> It may be incorrect, the refcount may be set to a higher value than 1
> and be valid. of_detach_node() can drop more than one reference. As
> it
> doesn't seem trivial to assert the correct value, let's remove the
> warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
> b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
> index 6758fd7c382e..5b5cbf1e636d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c
> @@ -151,17 +151,11 @@ static void pnv_php_rmv_pdns(struct device_node
> *dn)
>  static void pnv_php_detach_device_nodes(struct device_node *parent)
>  {
>  	struct device_node *dn;
> -	int refcount;
>  
>  	for_each_child_of_node(parent, dn) {
>  		pnv_php_detach_device_nodes(dn);
>  
>  		of_node_put(dn);
> -		refcount = kref_read(&dn->kobj.kref);
> -		if (refcount != 1)
> -			pr_warn("Invalid refcount %d on <%pOF>\n",
> -				refcount, dn);
> -
>  		of_detach_node(dn);
>  	}
>  }

Reviewed-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>

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Alastair D'Silva
Open Source Developer
Linux Technology Centre, IBM Australia
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