vmw_balloon: fix VMCI use when balloon built into kernel
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792419 commit c3cc1b0f upstream. Currently, when all modules, including VMCI and VMware balloon are built into the kernel, the initialization of the balloon happens before the VMCI is probed. As a result, the balloon fails to initialize the VMCI doorbell, which it uses to get asynchronous requests for balloon size changes. The problem can be seen in the logs, in the form of the following message: "vmw_balloon: failed to initialize vmci doorbell" The driver would work correctly but slightly less efficiently, probing for requests periodically. This patch changes the balloon to be initialized using late_initcall() instead of module_init() to address this issue. It does not address a situation in which VMCI is built as a module and the balloon is built into the kernel. Fixes: 48e3d668 ("VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
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