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John Stultz ce68929f07 driver core: Revert default driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 0 
This patch addresses a regression in 5.7-rc1+

In commit c8c43cee29 ("driver core: Fix
driver_deferred_probe_check_state() logic"), we both cleaned up
the logic and also set the default driver_deferred_probe_timeout
value to 30 seconds to allow for drivers that are missing
dependencies to have some time so that the dependency may be
loaded from userland after initcalls_done is set.

However, Yoshihiro Shimoda reported that on his device that
expects to have unmet dependencies (due to "optional links" in
its devicetree), was failing to mount the NFS root.

In digging further, it seemed the problem was that while the
device properly probes after waiting 30 seconds for any missing
modules to load, the ip_auto_config() had already failed,
resulting in NFS to fail. This was due to ip_auto_config()
calling wait_for_device_probe() which doesn't wait for the
driver_deferred_probe_timeout to fire.

Fixing that issue is possible, but could also introduce 30
second delays in bootups for users who don't have any
missing dependencies, which is not ideal.

So I think the best solution to avoid any regressions is to
revert back to a default timeout value of zero, and allow
systems that need to utilize the timeout in order for userland
to load any modules that supply misisng dependencies in the dts
to specify the timeout length via the exiting documented boot
argument.

Thanks to Geert for chasing down that ip_auto_config was why NFS
was failing in this case!

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Cc: Basil Eljuse <Basil.Eljuse@arm.com>
Cc: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Tested-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Fixes: c8c43cee29 ("driver core: Fix driver_deferred_probe_check_state() logic")
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200422203245.83244-2-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-04-28 17:56:26 +02:00
arch s390 fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 10:58:49 -07:00
block blk-iocost: Fix error on iocost_ioc_vrate_adj 2020-04-21 09:49:36 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
Documentation USB fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 11:22:01 -07:00
drivers driver core: Revert default driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 0 2020-04-28 17:56:26 +02:00
fs coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled 2020-04-28 17:54:13 +02:00
include amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices 2020-04-28 17:44:34 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.7 (2nd) 2020-04-11 09:46:12 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
kernel coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled 2020-04-28 17:54:13 +02:00
lib lib/mpi: Fix building for powerpc with clang 2020-04-24 13:14:59 +10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: check that mm is still valid in madvise() 2020-04-24 13:28:03 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-04-24 19:17:30 -07:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-21 11:11:56 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.7 2020-04-24 10:39:32 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200416 2020-04-16 10:45:47 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-24 10:27:43 -07:00
tools Two fixes: fix an off-by-one bug, and fix 32-bit builds on 64-bit systems. 2020-04-25 11:52:02 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Add Sedat Dilek (replacement for expired email address) 2020-04-11 09:28:34 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Staging/IIO driver fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 11:12:30 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 13:51:02 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.