* 'irq/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
Revert "genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running in hardirq context"
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: x86, mmiotrace: fix range test
tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
tick_handle_periodic() can lock up hard when a one shot clock event
device is used in combination with jiffies clocksource.
Avoid an endless loop issue by requiring that a highres valid
clocksource be installed before we call tick_periodic() in a loop when
using ONESHOT mode. The result is we will only increment jiffies once
per interrupt until a continuous hardware clocksource is available.
Without this, we can run into a endless loop, where each cycle through
the loop, jiffies is updated which increments time by tick_period or
more (due to clock steering), which can cause the event programming to
think the next event was before the newly incremented time and fail
causing tick_periodic() to be called again and the whole process loops
forever.
[ Impact: prevent hard lock up ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
This reverts commit 044d408409.
The commit added a warning when handle_IRQ_event() is called outside
of hard interrupt context. This breaks the generic tasklet based
interrupt resend mechanism which is used when the hardware has no way
to retrigger the interrupt. So we get a warning for a use case which
is correct and worked for years. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sparse reports the following in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c:
warning: symbol 'firing' shadows an earlier one
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE1909016C1AFE@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Andrew Gallatin reported that IRQ and SOFTIRQ times were
sometime not reported correctly on recent kernels, and even
bisected to commit 457533a7d3
([PATCH] fix scaled & unscaled cputime accounting) as the first
bad commit.
Further analysis pointed that commit
79741dd357 ([PATCH] idle cputime
accounting) was the real cause of the problem.
account_process_tick() was not taking into account timer IRQ
interrupting the idle task servicing a hard or soft irq.
On mostly idle cpu, irqs were thus not accounted and top or
mpstat could tell user/admin that cpu was 100 % idle, 0.00 %
irq, 0.00 % softirq, while it was not.
[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect CPU statistics in top/mpstat ]
Reported-by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Re-reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com
Cc: brice@myri.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <49F84BC1.7080602@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize
the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes
a drastic memory leak.
Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak
was.
[ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/irq: mark NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC broken
x86, irq: Remove IRQ_DISABLED check in process context IRQ move
Commit c751085943 ("PM/Hibernate: Wait for
SCSI devices scan to complete during resume") added a call to
scsi_complete_async_scans() to software_resume(), so that it waited for
the SCSI scanning to complete, but the call was added at a wrong place.
Namely, it should have been added after wait_for_device_probe(), which
is called only if the image partition hasn't been specified yet. Also,
it's reasonable to check if the image partition is present and only wait
for the device probing and SCSI scanning to complete if it is not the
case.
Additionally, since noresume is checked right at the beginning of
software_resume() and the function returns immediately if it's set, it
doesn't make sense to check it once again later.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Slow-work appears to delete its timer as soon as the first user
unregisters, even though other users could be active. At the same time, it
never seems to delete slow_work_oom_timer. Arrange for both to happen in
the shutdown path.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen reported this message triggering on non-lockdep kernels:
Disabling lockdep due to kernel taint
Clarify the message to say 'lock debugging' - debug_locks_off()
turns off all things lock debugging, not just lockdep.
[ Impact: change kernel warning message text ]
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add enable() and disable() callbacks for clocksources.
This allows us to put unused clocksources in power save mode. The
functions clocksource_enable() and clocksource_disable() wrap the
callbacks and are inserted in the timekeeping code to enable before use
and disable after switching to a new clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pass clocksource pointer to the read() callback for clocksources. This
allows us to share the callback between multiple instances.
[hugh@veritas.com: fix powerpc build of clocksource pass clocksource mods]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 900af0d973 (PM: Change suspend
code ordering) changed the ordering of suspend code in such a way
that the platform .prepare() callback is now executed after the
device drivers' late suspend callbacks have run. Unfortunately, this
turns out to break ARM platforms that need to talk via I2C to power
control devices during the .prepare() callback.
For this reason introduce two new platform suspend callbacks,
.prepare_late() and .wake(), that will be called just prior to
disabling non-boot CPUs and right after bringing them back on line,
respectively, and use them instead of .prepare() and .finish() for
ACPI suspend. Make the PM core execute the .prepare() and .finish()
platform suspend callbacks where they were executed previously (that
is, right after calling the regular suspend methods provided by
device drivers and right before executing their regular resume
methods, respectively).
It is not necessary to make analogous changes to the hibernation
code and data structures at the moment, because they are only used
by ACPI platforms.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This function is not actually used right now, since the original use
case for it was done with insert_resource_expand_to_fit() instead.
However, we now have another usage case that wants to basically do a
"reserve IO resource, splitting around existing resources", however that
one doesn't actually want the "recurse into the conflicting resource"
logic at all.
And since recursing into the conflicting resource was the most complex
part, and isn't wanted, just remove it. Maybe we'll some day want both
versions, but we can just resurrect the logic then.
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Steven Rostedt reported:
> OK, I think I figured this bug out. This is a lockdep issue with respect
> to tracepoints.
>
> The trace points in lockdep are called all the time. Outside the lockdep
> logic. But if lockdep were to trigger an error / warning (which this run
> did) we might be in trouble. For new locks, like the dentry->d_lock, that
> are created, they will not get a name:
>
> void lockdep_init_map(struct lockdep_map *lock, const char *name,
> struct lock_class_key *key, int subclass)
> {
> if (unlikely(!debug_locks))
> return;
>
> When a problem is found by lockdep, debug_locks becomes false. Thus we
> stop allocating names for locks. This dentry->d_lock I had, now has no
> name. Worse yet, I have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, that scrambles non
> initialized memory. Thus, when the trace point was hit, it had junk for
> the lock->name, and the machine crashed.
Ah, nice catch. I think we should put at least the name in regardless.
Ensure we at least initialize the trivial entries of the depmap so that
they can be relied upon, even when lockdep itself decided to pack up and
go home.
[ Impact: fix lock tracing after lockdep warnings. ]
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239954049.23397.4156.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Avoid printing sched_group::__cpu_power for default case
tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notrace
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kernel/softirq.c: fix sparse warning
rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happy
Fix sparse warning in kernel/softirq.c.
warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
LKML-Reference: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE1909015F9033@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit 46e0bb9c12 ("sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power
in sched_domain_debug") produces a messy dmesg output while
attempting to print the sched_group::__cpu_power for each
group in the sched_domain hierarchy.
Fix this by avoid printing the __cpu_power for default cases.
(i.e, __cpu_power == SCHED_LOAD_SCALE).
[ Impact: reduce syslog clutter ]
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Fixed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <20090414033936.GA534@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Don't try and predeclare inline funcs like this:
static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void)
...
static void _rcu_barrier(enum rcu_barrier type)
{
...
wait_migrated_callbacks();
}
...
static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void)
{
wait_event(rcu_migrate_wq, !atomic_read(&rcu_migrate_type_count));
}
as it upsets some versions of gcc under some circumstances:
kernel/rcupdate.c: In function `_rcu_barrier':
kernel/rcupdate.c:125: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'wait_migrated_callbacks': function body not available
kernel/rcupdate.c:152: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
This can be dealt with by simply putting the static variables (rcu_migrate_*)
at the top, and moving the implementation of the function up so that it
replaces its forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As discussed in the thread here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123964468521142&w=2
Eric W. Biederman observed:
> It looks like some additional bugs have slipped in since last I looked.
>
> set_irq_affinity does this:
> ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ
> if (desc->status & IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT || desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED) {
> cpumask_copy(desc->affinity, cpumask);
> desc->chip->set_affinity(irq, cpumask);
> } else {
> desc->status |= IRQ_MOVE_PENDING;
> cpumask_copy(desc->pending_mask, cpumask);
> }
> #else
>
> That IRQ_DISABLED case is a software state and as such it has nothing to
> do with how safe it is to move an irq in process context.
[...]
>
> The only reason we migrate MSIs in interrupt context today is that there
> wasn't infrastructure for support migration both in interrupt context
> and outside of it.
Yes. The idea here was to force the MSI migration to happen in process
context. One of the patches in the series did
disable_irq(dev->irq);
irq_set_affinity(dev->irq, cpumask_of(dev->cpu));
enable_irq(dev->irq);
with the above patch adding irq/manage code check for interrupt disabled
and moving the interrupt in process context.
IIRC, there was no IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT when we were developing this HPET
code and we ended up having this ugly hack. IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT was there
when we eventually submitted the patch upstream. But, looks like I did a
blind rebasing instead of using IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT in hpet MSI code.
Below patch fixes this. i.e., revert commit 932775a4ab
and add PCNTXT to HPET MSI setup. Also removes copying of desc->affinity
in generic code as set_affinity routines are doing it internally.
Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Li Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "lcm@us.ibm.com" <lcm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090413222058.GB8211@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes a hierarchical-RCU performance bug located by Anton
Blanchard. The problem stems from a misguided attempt to provide a
work-around for jiffies-counter failure. This work-around uses a per-CPU
n_rcu_pending counter, which is incremented on each call to rcu_pending(),
which in turn is called from each scheduling-clock interrupt. Each CPU
then treats this counter as a surrogate for the jiffies counter, so
that if the jiffies counter fails to advance, the per-CPU n_rcu_pending
counter will cause RCU to invoke force_quiescent_state(), which in turn
will (among other things) send resched IPIs to CPUs that have thus far
failed to pass through an RCU quiescent state.
Unfortunately, each CPU resets only its own counter after sending a
batch of IPIs. This means that the other CPUs will also (needlessly)
send -another- round of IPIs, for a full N-squared set of IPIs in the
worst case every three scheduler-clock ticks until the grace period
finally ends. It is not reasonable for a given CPU to reset each and
every n_rcu_pending for all the other CPUs, so this patch instead simply
disables the jiffies-counter "training wheels", thus eliminating the
excessive IPIs.
Note that the jiffies-counter IPIs do not have this problem due to
the fact that the jiffies counter is global, so that the CPU sending
the IPIs can easily reset things, thus preventing the other CPUs from
sending redundant IPIs.
Note also that the n_rcu_pending counter remains, as it will continue to
be used for tracing. It may also see use to update the jiffies counter,
should an appropriate kick-the-jiffies-counter API appear.
Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: schamp@sgi.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: ego@in.ibm.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <12396834793575-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove overly redundant tracing entries
When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", way too much
"get_parent_ip" entries are recorded in ring_buffer.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D458B1.5000703@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pointed out by Roland. The bug was recently introduced by me in
"forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part", commit
39c626ae47.
Since that patch we have a window after exit_ptrace() drops tasklist and
before forget_original_parent() takes it again. In this window the child
can do ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) and nobody can untrace this child after
that.
Change ptrace_traceme() to not attach to the exiting ->real_parent. We
don't report the error in this case, we pretend we attach right before
->real_parent calls exit_ptrace() which should untrace us anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vm knobs should go in the vm table. Probably too late for
randomize_va_space though.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Before patch:
# tracer: power
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
[ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463
[ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532
...
After patch:
# tracer: power
#
# TIMESTAMP STATE EVENT
# | | |
[ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463
[ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532
...
v2: Use seq_puts instead of seq_printf
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E2E889.5000903@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is a race between resume from hibernation and the asynchronous
scanning of SCSI devices and to prevent it from happening we need to
call scsi_complete_async_scans() during resume from hibernation.
In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's
better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before
attempting to open the resume device.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
Make __stringify support variable argument macros too
tracing: fix document references
tracing: fix splice return too large
tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
tracing: allocate page when needed
tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
Impact: broaden lockdep checks
Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
on another things that require lockdep.
The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers
Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...
But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.
This patch adds this missing warning.
Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.
v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
open coded xchg().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- propagate return value of filter_add_pred() to the user
- return -ENOSPC but not -ENOMEM or -EINVAL when the filter array
is full
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04CF0.3010105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make sure messages from user space are NIL-terminated strings,
otherwise we could dump random memory while reading filter file.
Try this:
# echo 'parent_comm ==' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
# cat events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
parent_comm == �
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E04C32.6060508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we
synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to
mount root filesystems etc.
However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the
module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished
probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to
use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken.
We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code,
where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped
the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running.
That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit
5d38258ec0 "ACPI battery: fix async boot
oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all
async work to be completed.
It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be
built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle
from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple
fix to wait is the right one.
This fixes at least
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063
but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and
is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug
report (no bugzilla entry).
We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix.
Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com>
Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
