Drivers: hv: Execute shutdown in a thread context

Execute the shutdown code in a thread context. With recent changes made to the
shutdown code, shutdown code cannot be invoked from an interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
index 8b7868a5bad0..1d4cbd8e8261 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ static struct hv_util_service util_kvp = {
         .util_deinit = hv_kvp_deinit,
 };
 
+static void perform_shutdown(struct work_struct *dummy)
+{
+        orderly_poweroff(true);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Perform the shutdown operation in a thread context.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WORK(shutdown_work, perform_shutdown);
+
 static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 {
         struct vmbus_channel *channel = context;
@@ -106,7 +116,7 @@ static void shutdown_onchannelcallback(void *context)
         }
 
         if (execute_shutdown == true)
-                orderly_poweroff(true);
+                schedule_work(&shutdown_work);
 }
 
 /*