[PATCH v1 0/3] ACPI: bus: Rework acquiring the primary physical for a given ACPI one
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:28:44 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.acpi.devel,gmane.linux.kernel |
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| Organization | Linux Kernel Development - Intel |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi All, This is somewhat late, but since there will be follow-up changes tree-wide, it would be good to get it into the mainline sooner than later. It is based on the observation that the majority of acpi_get_first_physical_node() callers want to hold a reference on the returned device and the function is potentially racy because it doesn't get such a reference itself. There were also some comments from Sashiko pointing out to this as a "preexisting issue". The first patch adds a acpi_get_first_physical_node() replacement called acpi_bus_get_primary_device() and returning a reference-counted device (the former is retained for the time being, but made use the same code as the latter). The next two patches change the core ACPI code to use the new function instead of the old one. Later on, patches will be sent to switch all of the callers of acpi_get_first_physical_node() over to using acpi_bus_get_primary_device() and finally to drop the former. Thanks!