Commit e8905914 authored by Uwe Kleine-König's avatar Uwe Kleine-König Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

siox: don't create a thread without starting it

When a siox master device is registered a kthread is created that is
only started when triggered by userspace. So this thread might be in
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for long and trigger a warning

	[  241.130465] INFO: task siox-0:626 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

with the respective debug settings enabled. It might be right to put an
unstarted thread to TASK_IDLE (in kernel/kthread.c:kthread()) instead,
but independant of this discussion it is cleaner for
siox_master_register() to start the thread immediately. The effect is
that it enters its own waiting state and then stays in state TASK_IDLE
which doesn't trigger the above warning.

As siox_poll_thread() uses some variables of the device the
initialisation of these is moved before thread creation.
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarGavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7e6f7d24
......@@ -715,17 +715,17 @@ int siox_master_register(struct siox_master *smaster)
dev_set_name(&smaster->dev, "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
smaster->last_poll = jiffies;
smaster->poll_thread = kthread_create(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
"siox-%d", smaster->busno);
smaster->poll_thread = kthread_run(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
"siox-%d", smaster->busno);
if (IS_ERR(smaster->poll_thread)) {
smaster->active = 0;
return PTR_ERR(smaster->poll_thread);
}
mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
ret = device_add(&smaster->dev);
if (ret)
kthread_stop(smaster->poll_thread);
......
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