linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] reboot: Add timeout for device shutdown

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 12:00:54 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Soumya Khasnis <soumya.khasnis@...y.com>
Cc: rafael@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	daniel.lezcano@...aro.org, festevam@...x.de, lee@...nel.org,
	benjamin.bara@...data.com, dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com,
	ldmldm05@...il.com, srinavasa.nagaraju@...y.com,
	Madhusudan.Bobbili@...y.com, shingo.takeuchi@...y.com,
	keita.aihara@...y.com, masaya.takahashi@...y.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reboot: Add timeout for device shutdown

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 08:32:24AM +0000, Soumya Khasnis wrote:
> The device shutdown callbacks invoked during shutdown/reboot
> are prone to errors depending on the device state or mishandling
> by one or more driver. In order to prevent a device hang in such
> scenarios, we bail out after a timeout while dumping a meaningful
> call trace of the shutdown callback which blocks the shutdown or
> reboot process.
> 
> Change-Id: Ibfc63ca8f8aa45866cbe6b90401d438d95eca742

Any reason you didn't run this through checkpatch.pl first?

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