Re: [PATCH 3.11-rc1] crypto: Fix boot failure due to module dependency.

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Thursday, July 18, 2013 04:44:20 PM H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 03:17 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>
> >> alias x86cpu:vendor:*:family:*:model:*:feature:*0081* crct10dif_pclmul
> >>
> >> This should cause udev to load the crct10dif_pclml module when cpu
> >> support the PCLMULQDQ (feature code 0081).  I did my testing during
> >> development on 3.10 and the module was indeed loaded.
> >>
> >> However, I found that the following commit under 3.11-rc1 broke
> >> the mechanism after some bisection.
> >>
> >> commit ac212b6980d8d5eda705864fc5a8ecddc6d6eacc
> >> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> >> Date:   Fri May 3 00:26:22 2013 +0200
> >>
> >>      ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure
> >>           Split the ACPI processor driver into two parts, one that is
> >>      non-modular, resides in the ACPI core and handles the enumeration
> >>      and hotplug of processors and one that implements the rest of the
> >>      existing processor driver functionality.
> >>      Rafael, can you check and see if this can be fixed so those
> >> optimized
> >> crypto modules for Intel cpu that support them can be loaded?
> > 
> > I think this is an ordering issue between udev startup and the time when
> > devices are registered.
> > 
> > I wonder what happens if you put those modules into the initramfs image?
> > 
> 
> OK, this bothers me on some pretty deep level... a set of changes
> exclusively in drivers/acpi breaking functionality which had nothing to
> do with ACPI, specifically CPU-feature-based module loading.

Well, they are not exclusively in drivers/acpi, they are in drivers/base/cpu.c
too and that most likely is the responsible part.

> Please let me know what the investigation comes up with, or if I need to
> get more directly involved.

I will.

Thanks,
Rafael


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