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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2009-02-08 10:42:01 -0800
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-03-31 13:05:35 +1030
commitacae05156551fd7528fbb616271e672789388e3c (patch)
tree71cb528037776997aea4d5a3128bd9c2ea723ba1
parent8c8ef42aee8fcfb4128bb94c50d55c9f80ade525 (diff)
module: create a request_module_nowait()
There seems to be a common pattern in the kernel where drivers want to call request_module() from inside a module_init() function. Currently this would deadlock. As a result, several drivers go through hoops like scheduling things via kevent, or creating custom work queues (because kevent can deadlock on them). This patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function macro instead, which just fires the modprobe off but doesn't wait for it, and thus avoids the original deadlock entirely. On my laptop this already results in one less kernel thread running.. (Includes Jiri's patch to use enum umh_wait) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (bool-ified) Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kmod.h11
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c10
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 92213a9194e1..d5fa565086d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
/* modprobe exit status on success, -ve on error. Return value
* usually useless though. */
-extern int request_module(const char * name, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)));
-#define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) ((x) ?: (request_module(mod), (x)))
+extern int __request_module(bool wait, const char *name, ...) \
+ __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)));
+#define request_module(mod...) __request_module(true, mod)
+#define request_module_nowait(mod...) __request_module(false, mod)
+#define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) \
+ ((x) ?: (__request_module(false, mod), (x)))
#else
-static inline int request_module(const char * name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
+static inline int request_module(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
+static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
#define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) (x)
#endif
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index f0c8f545180d..b750675251e5 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq;
char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
/**
- * request_module - try to load a kernel module
+ * __request_module - try to load a kernel module
+ * @wait: wait (or not) for the operation to complete
* @fmt: printf style format string for the name of the module
* @...: arguments as specified in the format string
*
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
* If module auto-loading support is disabled then this function
* becomes a no-operation.
*/
-int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
+int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;
char module_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
@@ -108,11 +109,12 @@ int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp, 1);
+ ret = call_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp,
+ wait ? UMH_WAIT_PROC : UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(request_module);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_module);
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
struct subprocess_info {