RE: [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

[KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:18 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Jiri Kosina; olaf@aepfle.de; jasowang@redhat.com; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com;
> apw@canonical.com; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; davem@davemloft.net
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 05:06:27PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jiri Kosina [mailto:jkosina@suse.cz]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:10 AM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com;
> > > jasowang@redhat.com; davem@davemloft.net;
> > > James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/hv/hv_util.c |   12 +++++++++++-
> > > >  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> > > > index 8b7868a..aceb67f 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
> > > > @@ -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);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > Is there any particular reason for this kind of crazy indentation?
> > I don't know how this extra tab crept through! Greg, if you want I can resend
> > this patch minus the extra tab. Let me know.
> 
> I'll edit it by hand, but someone owes me a beer for it...  :)

I just saw that you closed the tree. Did these patches go in?

Regards,

K. Y
> 
> greg k-h
>