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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:40:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720164000.GA10119@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720090041.5924f5ff@infradead.org>


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first
> 
> Rene Herman points out several cases where it's basically needed to 
> have all level 6/6a/6s calls done before the level 7 (late_initcall) 
> code runs. This patch adds a sync point in the transition from the 6's 
> to the 7's.
> 
> Second, this patch makes sure that level 6s (sync) happens before the 
> async code starts, and puts a user in driver/pci in this category that 
> needs to happen before device init.

incidentally, this fixed an USB related boot hang i found today on one 
of my testsystems running tip/master (which had patches 1-2-3 already), 
which i was about to report. Good spotting Rene! I've applied patches 
4/5 to tip/fastboot.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20 15:59 [patch 4/3] fastboot: hold the BKL over the async init call sequence Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 16:00 ` [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 16:40   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-20 21:14   ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-20 21:23     ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-20 21:50     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 21:00   ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 21:04     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 21:12       ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 21:21         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 22:30           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 22:34             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-30 14:08               ` Alan Stern
2008-07-30 18:25                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-30 19:41                   ` Alan Stern
2008-07-31 11:49                     ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 15:34                       ` Alan Stern
2008-07-31 18:29                         ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 18:56                           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 19:27                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 19:16                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 18:40                             ` [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 19:11                               ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 19:20                                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 19:29                                   ` Greg KH
2008-08-06 19:49                                   ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 19:56                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 20:09                                       ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 20:17                                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 20:27                                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 20:07                                     ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 20:26                                       ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 21:49                                         ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 22:34                                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 22:53                                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-07 14:14                                               ` Alan Stern
2008-08-07  3:29                                             ` David Brownell
2008-08-07  9:28                                           ` Emanoil Kotsev
2008-08-07 16:47                                             ` Alan Stern
2008-08-07  3:34                               ` David Brownell
2008-08-08  9:24                               ` Rene Herman
2008-08-08 11:29                                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-08 14:30                                   ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 21:56                           ` [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first Greg KH
2008-07-31 22:12                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 22:37                               ` Simon Arlott
2008-09-16 22:19                             ` Tim Bird

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