linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1301241108590.31600@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:09:53 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, olaf@...fle.de, apw@...onical.com,
	jasowang@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:

> Execute the shutdown code in a thread context. With recent changes made to the
> shutdown code, shutdown code cannot be invoked from an interrupt context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/hv_util.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> index 8b7868a..aceb67f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ static struct hv_util_service util_kvp = {
>  	.util_deinit = hv_kvp_deinit,
>  };
>  
> +static void perform_shutdown(struct work_struct *dummy)
> +{
> +		orderly_poweroff(true);
> +}

Is there any particular reason for this kind of crazy indentation?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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