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Igor Pylypiv 67d6212afd Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used" 
This reverts commit 774a1221e8.

We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is
done.  In the reverted commit the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was added to mark a
thread that called async_schedule().  Then the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was
used to determine whether or not async_synchronize_full() needs to be
invoked.  This works when modprobe thread is calling async_schedule(),
but it does not work if module dispatches init code to a worker thread
which then calls async_schedule().

For example, PCI driver probing is invoked from a worker thread based on
a node where device is attached:

	if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids)
		error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi);
	else
		error = local_pci_probe(&ddi);

We end up in a situation where a worker thread gets the PF_USED_ASYNC
flag set instead of the modprobe thread.  As a result,
async_synchronize_full() is not invoked and modprobe completes without
waiting for the async code to finish.

The issue was discovered while loading the pm80xx driver:
(scsi_mod.scan=async)

modprobe pm80xx                      worker
...
  do_init_module()
  ...
    pci_call_probe()
      work_on_cpu(local_pci_probe)
                                     local_pci_probe()
                                       pm8001_pci_probe()
                                         scsi_scan_host()
                                           async_schedule()
                                           worker->flags |= PF_USED_ASYNC;
                                     ...
      < return from worker >
  ...
  if (current->flags & PF_USED_ASYNC) <--- false
  	async_synchronize_full();

Commit 21c3c5d280 ("block: don't request module during elevator init")
fixed the deadlock issue which the reverted commit 774a1221e8
("module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is
used") tried to fix.

Since commit 0fdff3ec6d ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous
request_module() from async workers") synchronous module loading from
async is not allowed.

Given that the original deadlock issue is fixed and it is no longer
allowed to call synchronous request_module() from async we can remove
PF_USED_ASYNC flag to make module init consistently invoke
async_synchronize_full() unless async module probe is requested.

Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-02-03 11:20:34 -08:00
arch - fix missed change for PTR->PTR_WD conversion 2022-02-03 06:45:34 -08:00
block block: add bio_start_io_acct_time() to control start_time 2022-01-28 12:28:15 -07:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto lib/crypto: add prompts back to crypto libraries 2022-01-18 13:03:55 +01:00
Documentation spi: Fixes for v5.17 2022-02-01 12:39:37 -08:00
drivers Pin control fixes for the v5.17 kernel cycle: 2022-02-02 09:50:17 -08:00
fs Notable bug fixes: 2022-02-02 10:14:31 -08:00
include Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used" 2022-02-03 11:20:34 -08:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
kernel Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used" 2022-02-03 11:20:34 -08:00
lib kasan: test: fix compatibility with FORTIFY_SOURCE 2022-01-30 09:56:58 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Revert "mm/gup: small refactoring: simplify try_grab_page()" 2022-02-03 06:51:42 -08:00
net \n 2022-01-28 17:51:31 +02:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
scripts ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting 2022-01-27 19:15:44 -05:00
security Fix NULL pointer crash in LSM via Ceph, from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>. 2022-01-29 08:52:27 +02:00
sound proc: remove PDE_DATA() completely 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
tools linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.17-rc3 2022-02-02 10:00:08 -08:00
usr kbuild: remove include/linux/cyclades.h from header file check 2022-01-27 08:51:08 +01:00
virt Two larger x86 series: 2022-01-28 19:00:26 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 5.17-rc2, including fixes from netfilter and can. 2022-01-27 20:58:39 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.17-rc2 2022-01-30 15:37:07 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.