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[069/145] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

Message ID 1374101277-7915-70-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa July 17, 2013, 10:46 p.m. UTC 
3.8.13.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>

commit 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc upstream.

Execute the shutdown code in a thread context. With recent changes made to the
shutdown code, shutdown code cannot be invoked from an interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 drivers/hv/hv_util.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
index a0667de..c64be4f 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@  static struct hv_util_service util_kvp = {
 	.util_deinit = hv_kvp_deinit,
 };
 
+static void perform_shutdown(struct work_struct *dummy)
+{
+	orderly_poweroff(true);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Perform the shutdown operation in a thread context.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WORK(shutdown_work, perform_shutdown);
+
 static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 {
 	struct vmbus_channel *channel = context;
@@ -106,7 +116,7 @@  static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 	}
 
 	if (execute_shutdown == true)
-		orderly_poweroff(true);
+		schedule_work(&shutdown_work);
 }
 
 /*