Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:15:21 +0800 | Subject | Re: USB device cannot be reconnected and khubd "blocked for more than 120 seconds" | From | Ming Lei <> |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote: > [ 86.901367] io scheduler deadline registered (default) > [ 181.168487] INFO: task modprobe:2462 blocked for more than 90 seconds. > [ 181.175323] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" > disables this message. > [ 181.183624] modprobe D c04f1920 0 2462 2461 0x00000000 > [ 181.183685] [<c04f1920>] (__schedule+0x5fc/0x6d4) from [<c005eba4>] > (async_synchronize_cookie_domain+0xdc/0x168) > [ 181.183715] [<c005eba4>] (async_synchronize_cookie_domain+0xdc/0x168) from [<c005ed04>] (async_synchronize_full+0x3c/0x60) > [ 181.183776] [<c005ed04>] (async_synchronize_full+0x3c/0x60) from [<c0085610>] (load_module+0x1aac/0x1cdc) > [ 181.183807] [<c0085610>] (load_module+0x1aac/0x1cdc) from [<c0085944>] (sys_init_module+0x104/0x110) > [ 181.183837] [<c0085944>] (sys_init_module+0x104/0x110) from > [<c000dfe0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48)
The deadlock problem is caused by calling request_module() inside async function of do_scan_async(), and it was introduced by Linus's below commit:
commit d6de2c80e9d758d2e36c21699117db6178c0f517 Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri Apr 10 12:17:41 2009 -0700
async: Fix module loading async-work regression
IMO, maybe the commit isn't a proper fix, considered the below fact:
- it isn't good to allow async function to be marked as __init
- any user mode shouldn't expect that the device is ready just after completing of 'insmod', and drivers should make the device ready for user mode just after its async probing or other kind of async initialization(done in work or kthread) completes.
- from view of driver, introducing async_synchronize_full() after do_one_initcall() inside do_init_module() is like a sync probe for drivers built as module, and cause this kind of deadlock easily.
So could we revert the commit and fix the previous problems just case by case? or other better fix?
Thanks, -- Ming Lei
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