linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.18 006/228] siox: dont create a thread without starting it

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Date:   Tue,  2 Oct 2018 06:21:43 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@...elmann.de>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.18 006/228] siox: dont create a thread without starting it

4.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.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@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Acked-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@...elmann.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/siox/siox-core.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
+++ b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
@@ -715,17 +715,17 @@ int siox_master_register(struct siox_mas
 
 	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);