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authorTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>2022-02-25 13:44:44 +0000
committerTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>2022-02-25 13:44:44 +0000
commitdb927686e43ffebfc5d1693c1cb4fd74f462d99b (patch)
tree0cbd82aea0825efc1cb10bad4af664ed1bed9b83 /kernel/module.c
parentb8986c889e7ac26c57cb548f8f344456fa925a2f (diff)
parent54f43c17d681f6d9523fcfaeefc9df77993802e1 (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next
Matt needed some buddy allocator changes for landing DG2 small BAR support patches. Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c25
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 24dab046e16c..46a5c2ed1928 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3725,12 +3725,6 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
}
freeinit->module_init = mod->init_layout.base;
- /*
- * We want to find out whether @mod uses async during init. Clear
- * PF_USED_ASYNC. async_schedule*() will set it.
- */
- current->flags &= ~PF_USED_ASYNC;
-
do_mod_ctors(mod);
/* Start the module */
if (mod->init != NULL)
@@ -3756,22 +3750,13 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
/*
* We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence
- * is done. This has potential to deadlock. For example, a newly
- * detected block device can trigger request_module() of the
- * default iosched from async probing task. Once userland helper
- * reaches here, async_synchronize_full() will wait on the async
- * task waiting on request_module() and deadlock.
- *
- * This deadlock is avoided by perfomring async_synchronize_full()
- * iff module init queued any async jobs. This isn't a full
- * solution as it will deadlock the same if module loading from
- * async jobs nests more than once; however, due to the various
- * constraints, this hack seems to be the best option for now.
- * Please refer to the following thread for details.
+ * is done. This has potential to deadlock if synchronous module
+ * loading is requested from async (which is not allowed!).
*
- * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814
+ * See commit 0fdff3ec6d87 ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous
+ * request_module() from async workers") for more details.
*/
- if (!mod->async_probe_requested && (current->flags & PF_USED_ASYNC))
+ if (!mod->async_probe_requested)
async_synchronize_full();
ftrace_free_mem(mod, mod->init_layout.base, mod->init_layout.base +