Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:42:45 +0000 (17:42 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:17:32 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
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@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/hv_util.c

index 8b7868a5bad07c236aacd058b29b849d54b24adb..1d4cbd8e8261ef3f46f71005315a39f4d6d2c680 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Perform the shutdown operation in a thread context.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WORK(shutdown_work, perform_shutdown);
+
 static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 {
        struct vmbus_channel *channel = context;
@@ -106,7 +116,7 @@ static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
        }
 
        if (execute_shutdown == true)
-               orderly_poweroff(true);
+               schedule_work(&shutdown_work);
 }
 
 /*