On Wed, 2016-15-06 at 20:26:41 UTC, Greg Kurz wrote: > A strange behaviour is observed when comparing PCI hotplug in QEMU, between > x86 and pseries. If you consider the following steps: > - start a VM > - add a PCI device via the QEMU monitor before the rtasd has started (for > example starting the VM in paused state, or hotplug during FW or boot > loader) > - resume the VM execution > > The x86 kernel detects the PCI device, but the pseries one does not. > > This happens because the rtasd kernel worker is currently started under > device_initcall, while PCI probing happens earlier under subsys_initcall. > > As a consequence, if we have a pending RTAS event at boot time, a message > is printed and the event is dropped. > > This patch moves all the initialization of rtasd to arch_initcall, which is > run before subsys_call: this way, logging_enabled is true when the RTAS > event pops up and it is not lost anymore. > > The proc fs bits stay at device_initcall because they cannot be run before > fs_initcall. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8c6a0a1f4041f19559538649e0 cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
