Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place

there's a few places that currently loop over driver_probe_done(), and
I'm about to add another one. This patch abstracts it into a helper
to reduce duplication.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/base/dd.c

@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 
 #include "base.h"
 #include "power/power.h"
@@ -167,6 +169,21 @@ int driver_probe_done(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * wait_for_device_probe
+ * Wait for device probing to be completed.
+ *
+ * Note: this function polls at 100 msec intervals.
+ */
+int wait_for_device_probe(void)
+{
+	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
+	while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
+		msleep(100);
+	async_synchronize_full();
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  * driver_probe_device - attempt to bind device & driver together
  * @drv: driver to bind a device to

include/linux/device.h

@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ extern void put_driver(struct device_driver *drv);
 extern struct device_driver *driver_find(const char *name,
 					 struct bus_type *bus);
 extern int driver_probe_done(void);
+extern int wait_for_device_probe(void);
+
 
 /* sysfs interface for exporting driver attributes */
 

init/do_mounts.c

@@ -370,10 +370,14 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 		ssleep(root_delay);
 	}
 
-	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
-	while (driver_probe_done() != 0)
-		msleep(100);
-	async_synchronize_full();
+	/*
+	 * wait for the known devices to complete their probing
+	 *
+	 * Note: this is a potential source of long boot delays.
+	 * For example, it is not atypical to wait 5 seconds here
+	 * for the touchpad of a laptop to initialize.
+	 */
+	wait_for_device_probe();
 
 	md_run_setup();
 
@@ -399,6 +403,7 @@ void __init prepare_namespace(void)
 		while (driver_probe_done() != 0 ||
 			(ROOT_DEV = name_to_dev_t(saved_root_name)) == 0)
 			msleep(100);
+		async_synchronize_full();
 	}
 
 	is_floppy = MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == FLOPPY_MAJOR;

init/do_mounts_md.c

@@ -281,8 +281,9 @@ static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
 	 */
 	printk(KERN_INFO "md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect\n");
 	printk(KERN_INFO "md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect\n");
-	while (driver_probe_done() < 0)
-		msleep(100);
+
+	wait_for_device_probe();
+
 	fd = sys_open("/dev/md0", 0, 0);
 	if (fd >= 0) {
 		sys_ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, raid_autopart);