Re: [PATCH] driver core: add wait event for deferred probe

[Haojian Zhuang]

On 12 February 2013 07:10, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:57:57 +0800
> Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> do_initcalls() could call all driver initialization code in kernel_init
>> thread. It means that probe() function will be also called from that
>> time. After this, kernel could access console & release __init section
>> in the same thread.
>>
>> But if device probe fails and moves into deferred probe list, a new
>> thread is created to reinvoke probe. If the device is serial console,
>> kernel has to open console failure & release __init section before
>> reinvoking failure. Because there's no synchronization mechanism.
>> Now add wait event to synchronize after do_initcalls().
>
> It sounds like this:
>
> static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused)
> {
>         kernel_init_freeable();
>         /* need to finish all async __init code before freeing the memory */
>         async_synchronize_full();
>
> is designed to prevent the problem you describe?
>
It can't prevent the problem that I described. Because deferred_probe()
is introduced recently.

All synchronization should be finished just after do_initcalls(). Since
load_default_modules() is also called in the end of kernel_init_freeable(),
I'm not sure that whether I could remove async_synchronize_full()
here. So I didn't touch it.

>> --- a/init/main.c
>> +++ b/init/main.c
>> @@ -786,6 +786,7 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
>>       do_ctors();
>>       usermodehelper_enable();
>>       do_initcalls();
>> +     wait_for_device_probe();
>>  }
>
> Needs a nice comment here explaining what's going on.

No problem. I'll add comment here.

Regards
Haojian
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