The hotplug engine uses its own workqueue to handle IRQ requests, the problem is that such workqueue is initialized after init_ras_IRQ, which will cause a kernel panic if any hotplug interruption is issued in that period of time.
This patch changes the dlpar initcall registration to make sure it will be initialized before init_ras_IRQ. Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <jos...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c index 6e35780c5962..1f9ae1d0b2be 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c @@ -580,5 +580,5 @@ static int __init pseries_dlpar_init(void) WQ_UNBOUND, 1); return sysfs_create_file(kernel_kobj, &class_attr_dlpar.attr); } -machine_device_initcall(pseries, pseries_dlpar_init); +machine_arch_initcall(pseries, pseries_dlpar_init); -- 2.14.1