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Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 006/136] siox: don't create a thread without starting it
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From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

[ Upstream commit e890591413819eeb604207ad3261ba617b2ec0bb ]

When a siox master device is registered a kthread is created that is
only started when triggered by userspace. So this thread might be in
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for long and trigger a warning

[ 241.130465] INFO: task siox-0:626 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

with the respective debug settings enabled. It might be right to put an
unstarted thread to TASK_IDLE (in kernel/kthread.c:kthread()) instead,
but independant of this discussion it is cleaner for
siox_master_register() to start the thread immediately. The effect is
that it enters its own waiting state and then stays in state TASK_IDLE
which doesn't trigger the above warning.

As siox_poll_thread() uses some variables of the device the
initialisation of these is moved before thread creation.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
---
drivers/siox/siox-core.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
index 16590dfaafa4..cef307c0399c 100644
--- a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
+++ b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
@@ -715,17 +715,17 @@ int siox_master_register(struct siox_master *smaster)

dev_set_name(&smaster->dev, "siox-%d", smaster->busno);

+ mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
+
smaster->last_poll = jiffies;
- smaster->poll_thread = kthread_create(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
- "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
+ smaster->poll_thread = kthread_run(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
+ "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
if (IS_ERR(smaster->poll_thread)) {
smaster->active = 0;
return PTR_ERR(smaster->poll_thread);
}

- mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
-
ret = device_add(&smaster->dev);
if (ret)
kthread_stop(smaster->poll_thread);
--
2.17.1
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