[PATCH] mtd: don't WARN about overloaded users of mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call
Brian Norris
computersforpeace at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 17:01:53 PST 2015
There are multiple types of users of mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call:
(1) A while back, the cfi_cmdset_000{1,2} chip drivers implemented a
reboot notifier to (on a best effort basis) attempt to reset their flash
chips before rebooting.
(2) More recently, we implemented a common _reboot() hook so that MTD
drivers (particularly, NAND flash) could better halt I/O operations
without having to reimplement the same notifier boilerplate.
Currently, the WARN_ONCE() condition here was written to handle (2), but
at the same time it mis-diagnosed case (1) as an already-registered MTD.
Let's fix this by having the WARN_ONCE() condition better imitate the
condition that immediately follows it. (Wow, I don't know how I missed
that one.)
(Side note: Unfortunately, we can't yet combine the reboot notifier code
for (1) and (2) with a patch like [1], because some users of (1) also
use mtdconcat, and so the mtd_info struct from cfi_cmdset_000{1,2} won't
actually get registered with mtdcore, and therefore their reboot
notifier won't get registered.)
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/417981/
Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jespern at axis.com>
Cc: linux-cris-kernel at axis.com
---
This is probably a 4.4 candidate
drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
index b1eea48c501d..a91cee90aef9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c
@@ -616,7 +616,8 @@ int mtd_device_parse_register(struct mtd_info *mtd, const char * const *types,
* does cause problems with parse_mtd_partitions() above (e.g.,
* cmdlineparts will register partitions more than once).
*/
- WARN_ONCE(mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call, "MTD already registered\n");
+ WARN_ONCE(mtd->_reboot && mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call,
+ "MTD already registered\n");
if (mtd->_reboot && !mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call) {
mtd->reboot_notifier.notifier_call = mtd_reboot_notifier;
register_reboot_notifier(&mtd->reboot_notifier);
--
2.6.0.rc2.230.g3dd15c0
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