Re: [PATCH] arm/xen: Don't probe xenbus as part of an early initcall

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 10.02.21 18:06, Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> After Commit 3499ba8198cad ("xen: Fix event channel callback via
> INTX/GSI"), xenbus_probe() will be called too early on Arm. This will
> recent to a guest hang during boot.
>
> If there hang wasn't there, we would have ended up to call
> xenbus_probe() twice (the second time is in xenbus_probe_initcall()).
>
> We don't need to initialize xenbus_probe() early for Arm guest.
> Therefore, the call in xen_guest_init() is now removed.
>
> After this change, there is no more external caller for xenbus_probe().
> So the function is turned to a static one. Interestingly there were two
> prototypes for it.
>
> Fixes: 3499ba8198cad ("xen: Fix event channel callback via INTX/GSI")
> Reported-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Pushed to xen/tip.git for-linus-5.11


Juergen

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