powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit

[mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git] / kernel / kthread.c

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 1c19edf824272db47a48730478af5f3b582bbf67..e1285a91fc48541ebae64ad3fb55d07cf17f0433 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -294,6 +294,17 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
         * new kernel thread.
         */
        if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_killable(&done))) {
+               int i = 0;
+
+               /*
+                * I got SIGKILL, but wait for 10 more seconds for completion
+                * unless chosen by the OOM killer. This delay is there as a
+                * workaround for boot failure caused by SIGKILL upon device
+                * driver initialization timeout.
+                */
+               while (i++ < 10 && !test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_MEMDIE))
+                       if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, HZ))
+                               goto ready;
                /*
                 * If I was SIGKILLed before kthreadd (or new kernel thread)
                 * calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this structure to
@@ -307,6 +318,7 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
                 */
                wait_for_completion(&done);
        }
+ready:
        task = create->result;
        if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
                static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };