From 0fdff3ec6d87856cdcc99e69cf42143fdd6c56b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:48:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers Synchronous requet_module() from an async worker can lead to deadlock because module init path may invoke async_synchronize_full(). The async worker waits for request_module() to complete and the module loading waits for the async task to finish. This bug happened in the block layer because of default elevator auto-loading. Block layer has been updated not to do default elevator auto-loading and it has been decided to disallow synchronous request_module() from async workers. Trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() on synchronous request_module() from async workers. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Alex Riesen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven --- Reading git-format-patch failed