siox: don't create a thread without starting it

When a siox master device is registered a kthread is created that is
only started when triggered by userspace. So this thread might be in
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for long and trigger a warning

	[  241.130465] INFO: task siox-0:626 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

with the respective debug settings enabled. It might be right to put an
unstarted thread to TASK_IDLE (in kernel/kthread.c:kthread()) instead,
but independant of this discussion it is cleaner for
siox_master_register() to start the thread immediately. The effect is
that it enters its own waiting state and then stays in state TASK_IDLE
which doesn't trigger the above warning.

As siox_poll_thread() uses some variables of the device the
initialisation of these is moved before thread creation.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
index 3115f93..f8c08fb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
+++ b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
@@ -715,17 +715,17 @@ int siox_master_register(struct siox_master *smaster)
 
        dev_set_name(&smaster->dev, "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
 
+       mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
+
        smaster->last_poll = jiffies;
-       smaster->poll_thread = kthread_create(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
-                                             "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
+       smaster->poll_thread = kthread_run(siox_poll_thread, smaster,
+                                          "siox-%d", smaster->busno);
        if (IS_ERR(smaster->poll_thread)) {
                smaster->active = 0;
                return PTR_ERR(smaster->poll_thread);
        }
 
-       mutex_init(&smaster->lock);
-       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&smaster->devices);
-
        ret = device_add(&smaster->dev);
        if (ret)
                kthread_stop(smaster->poll_thread);