This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't wait after requesting offers
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drivers-hv-vmbus-don-t-wait-after-requesting-offers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 73cffdb65e679b98893f484063462c045adcf212 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:11:34 -0700
Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't wait after requesting offers
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 73cffdb65e679b98893f484063462c045adcf212 upstream.
Don't wait after sending request for offers to the host. This wait is
unnecessary and simply adds 5 seconds to the boot time.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ int vmbus_request_offers(void)
{
struct vmbus_channel_message_header *msg;
struct vmbus_channel_msginfo *msginfo;
- int ret, t;
+ int ret;
msginfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*msginfo) +
sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_message_header),
@@ -724,8 +724,6 @@ int vmbus_request_offers(void)
if (!msginfo)
return -ENOMEM;
- init_completion(&msginfo->waitevent);
-
msg = (struct vmbus_channel_message_header *)msginfo->msg;
msg->msgtype = CHANNELMSG_REQUESTOFFERS;
@@ -739,14 +737,6 @@ int vmbus_request_offers(void)
goto cleanup;
}
- t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&msginfo->waitevent, 5*HZ);
- if (t == 0) {
- ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
- goto cleanup;
- }
-
-
-
cleanup:
kfree(msginfo);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/drivers-hv-vmbus-don-t-wait-after-requesting-offers.patch
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