[Raring][PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

[joseph.salisbury at canonical.com]

From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180419

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 at microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc)
---
 drivers/hv/hv_util.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
index a0667de..c64be4f 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);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Perform the shutdown operation in a thread context.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WORK(shutdown_work, perform_shutdown);
+
 static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 {
 	struct vmbus_channel *channel = context;
@@ -106,7 +116,7 @@ static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 	}
 
 	if (execute_shutdown == true)
-		orderly_poweroff(true);
+		schedule_work(&shutdown_work);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5