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Commit cec72f3e authored by Saravana Kannan's avatar Saravana Kannan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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driver core: Don't do deferred probe in parallel with kernel_init thread

The current deferred probe implementation can mess up suspend/resume
ordering if deferred probe thread is kicked off in parallel with the
main initcall thread (kernel_init thread) [1].

For example:

Say device-B is a consumer of device-A.

Initcall thread					Deferred probe thread
===============					=====================
1. device-A is added.
2. device-B is added.
3. dpm_list is now [device-A, device-B].
4. driver-A defers probe of device-A.
						5. device-A is moved to
						   end of dpm_list
						6. dpm_list is now
						   [device-B, device-A]
7. driver-B is registereed and probes device-B.
8. dpm_list stays as [device-B, device-A].

The reverse order of dpm_list is used for suspend. So in this case
device-A would incorrectly get suspended before device-B.

Commit 716a7a25 ("driver core: fw_devlink: Add support for batching
fwnode parsing") kicked off the deferred probe thread early during boot
to run in parallel with the initcall thread and caused suspend/resume
regressions.  This patch removes the parallel run of the deferred probe
thread to avoid the suspend/resume regressions.

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAGETcx8W96KAw-d_siTX4qHB_-7ddk0miYRDQeHE6E0_8qx-6Q@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 716a7a25

 ("driver core: fw_devlink: Add support for batching fwnode parsing")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701194259.3337652-2-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9ebcfadb
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