Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration

[Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 12:12 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2022-05-24 10:46:49 [-0700], Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > Removing probe_timeout_waitqueue (as suggested) or setting the timeout
> > > to 0 avoids the delay.
> >
> > In your case, I think it might be working as intended? Curious, what
> > was the call stack in your case where it was blocked?
>
> Why is then there 10sec delay during boot? The backtrace is
> |------------[ cut here ]------------
> |WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 1 at drivers/base/dd.c:742 wait_for_device_probe+0x30/0x110
> |Modules linked in:
> |CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5+ #154
> |RIP: 0010:wait_for_device_probe+0x30/0x110
> |Call Trace:
> | <TASK>
> | prepare_namespace+0x2b/0x160
> | kernel_init_freeable+0x2b3/0x2dd
> | kernel_init+0x11/0x110
> | ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> | </TASK>
>
> Looking closer, it can't access init. This in particular box boots
> directly the kernel without an initramfs so the kernel later mounts
> /dev/sda1 and everything is good.  So that seems to be the reason…

Hmmm... that part shouldn't matter. As long as you are hitting the
same code path. My guess is one of them has CONFIG_MODULES enabled and
the other doesn't.

In either case, I think the patch needs to be reverted (I'll send out
one soon), but that'll also mean I need to revert part of my patch
(sets the timeout back to 0) or I need to fix this case:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/TYAPR01MB45443DF63B9EF29054F7C41FD8C60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

I'll try to do the latter if I can get something reasonable soon.
Otherwise, I'll just do the revert + partial revert.

-Saravana


> My other machine with an initramfs does not show this problem.
>
> > -Saravana
>
> Sebastian