Revert "driver core: synchronize device shutdown"

This reverts commit 401097ea4b89846d66ac78f7f108d49c2e922d9c.  The
original changelog said:

    A patch series to make .shutdown execute asynchronously.  Some drivers's
    shutdown can take a lot of time.  The patches can help save some shutdown
    time.  The patches use Arjan's async API.

    This patch:

    synchronize all tasks submitted by .shutdown

However, I'm not able to find any evidence that any other patches from
this series were applied, nor am I able to find any async tasks that are
scheduled in a .shutdown context.

On the other hand, we see occasional hangs on shutdown that appear to be
caused by the async_synchronize_full() in device_shutdown() waiting
forever for the async probing in sd if a SCSI disk shows up at just the
wrong time — the system starts the probe, but begins shutting down and
tears down too much of the SCSI driver to finish the probe.

If we had any async shutdown tasks, I guess the right fix would be to
create a "shutdown" async domain and have device_shutdown() only wait
for that domain.  But since there apparently are no async shutdown
tasks, we can just revert the waiting.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 80b6a9b..20da3ad 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include <linux/genhd.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/async.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
@@ -1987,7 +1986,6 @@ void device_shutdown(void)
                spin_lock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
        }
        spin_unlock(&devices_kset->list_lock);
-       async_synchronize_full();
 }
 
 /*