PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove

This patch adds an attribute named "remove" to a PCI device's sysfs
directory.  Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will remove the PCI
device and any children of it.

Trent Piepho wrote the original implementation and documentation.

Thanks to Vegard Nossum for testing under kmemcheck and finding locking
issues with the sysfs interface.

Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 9f8740ca3f3b..26e4b8bc53ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ that support it.  For example, a given bus might look like this:
      |   |-- enable
      |   |-- irq
      |   |-- local_cpus
+     |   |-- remove
      |   |-- resource
      |   |-- resource0
      |   |-- resource1
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
        enable              Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
        irq                 IRQ number (ascii, ro)
        local_cpus          nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
+       remove              remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
        resource            PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
        resource0..N        PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap)
        resource0_wc..N_wc  PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
 
   ro - read only file
   rw - file is readable and writable
+  wo - write only file
   mmap - file is mmapable
   ascii - file contains ascii text
   binary - file contains binary data
@@ -73,6 +76,13 @@ that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
 In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
 'enable' file, documented above.
 
+The 'remove' file is used to remove the PCI device, by writing a non-zero
+integer to the file.  This does not involve any kind of hot-plug functionality,
+e.g. powering off the device.  The device is removed from the kernel's list of
+PCI devices, the sysfs directory for it is removed, and the device will be
+removed from any drivers attached to it. Removal of PCI root buses is
+disallowed.
+
 Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
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