[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3c4c347574d913fb202e823f0894855fc267df39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:42:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

commit 3dd6cb497198a0533a2530b6a345c60c9a29b9bc upstream.

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>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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);
 }

 /*
--
1.8.1.2