[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: start rtasd before PCI probing

From: Greg Kurz
Date: Mon May 23 2016 - 04:28:47 EST


A strange behaviour is observed when comparing PCI hotplug in QEMU, between
x86 and pseries. If you consider the following steps:
- start a VM
- add a PCI device via the QEMU monitor before the rtasd has started (for
example starting the VM in paused state, or hotplug during FW or boot
loader)
- resume the VM execution

The x86 kernel detects the PCI device, but the pseries one does not.

This happens because the rtasd kernel worker is currently started under
device_initcall, while PCI probing happens earlier under subsys_initcall.

As a consequence, if we have a pending RTAS event at boot time, a message
is printed and the event is dropped.

This patch moves all the initialization of rtasd to arch_initcall, which is
run before subsys_call: this way, logging_enabled is true when the RTAS
event pops up and it is not lost anymore.

The proc fs bits stay at device_initcall because they cannot be run before
fs_initcall.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
index e864b7c5884e..ad9e4e1a2d5d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
@@ -526,10 +526,8 @@ void rtas_cancel_event_scan(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtas_cancel_event_scan);

-static int __init rtas_init(void)
+static int __init rtas_event_scan_init(void)
{
- struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
-
if (!machine_is(pseries) && !machine_is(chrp))
return 0;

@@ -562,13 +560,24 @@ static int __init rtas_init(void)
return -ENOMEM;
}

+ start_event_scan();
+
+ return 0;
+}
+arch_initcall(rtas_event_scan_init);
+
+static int __init rtas_init(void)
+{
+ struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
+
+ if (!machine_is(pseries) && !machine_is(chrp))
+ return 0;
+
entry = proc_create("powerpc/rtas/error_log", S_IRUSR, NULL,
&proc_rtas_log_operations);
if (!entry)
printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to create error_log proc entry\n");

- start_event_scan();
-
return 0;
}
__initcall(rtas_init);