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    async: Fix lack of boot-time console due to insufficient synchronization · 3af968e0
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Our async work synchronization was broken by "async: make sure
    independent async domains can't accidentally entangle" (commit
    d5a877e8), because it would report
    the wrong lowest active async ID when there was both running and
    pending async work.
    
    This caused things like no being able to read the root filesystem,
    resulting in missing console devices and inability to run 'init',
    causing a boot-time panic.
    
    This fixes it by properly returning the lowest pending async ID: if
    there is any running async work, that will have a lower ID than any
    pending work, and we should _not_ look at the pending work list.
    
    There were alternative patches from Jaswinder and James, but this one
    also cleans up the code by removing the pointless 'ret' variable and
    the unnecesary testing for an empty list around 'for_each_entry()' (if
    the list is empty, the for_each_entry() thing just won't execute).
    
    Fixes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474
    
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarChris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
    Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
    Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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