| Message ID | 1361895274-28868-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index 4b01ab3..82ff801 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ static int deferred_probe_initcall(void) driver_deferred_probe_enable = true; driver_deferred_probe_trigger(); + /* Sort as many dependencies as possible before exiting initcalls */ + flush_workqueue(deferred_wq); return 0; } late_initcall(deferred_probe_initcall);
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From ce5dd6f6d9d809c3a048270f380fa44852a0fce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:14:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls commit d72cca1eee5b26e313da2a380d4862924e271031 upstream. One of the side effects of deferred probe is that some drivers which used to be probed before initcalls completed are now happening slightly later. This causes two problems. - If a console driver gets deferred, then it may not be ready when userspace starts. For example, if a uart depends on pinctrl, then the uart will get deferred and /dev/console will not be available - __init sections will be discarded before built-in drivers are probed. Strictly speaking, __init functions should not be called in a drivers __probe path, but there are a lot of drivers (console stuff again) that do anyway. In the past it was perfectly safe to do so because all built-in drivers got probed before the end of initcalls. This patch fixes the problem by forcing the first pass of the deferred list to complete at late_initcall time. This is late enough to catch the drivers that are known to have the above issues. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Tested-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) -- 1.8.1.2