drivercore: deferral race condition fix
When the kernel is built with CONFIG_PREEMPT it is possible to reach a state when all modules loaded but some driver still stuck in the deferred list and there is a need for external event to kick the deferred queue to probe these drivers. The issue has been observed on embedded systems with CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled, audio support built as modules and using nfsroot for root filesystem. The following log fragment shows such sequence when all audio modules were loaded but the sound card is not present since the machine driver has failed to probe due to missing dependency during it's probe. The board is am335x-evmsk (McASP<->tlv320aic3106 codec) with davinci-evm machine driver: ... [ 12.615118] davinci-mcasp 4803c000.mcasp: davinci_mcasp_probe: ENTER [ 12.719969] davinci_evm sound.3: davinci_evm_probe: ENTER [ 12.725753] davinci_evm sound.3: davinci_evm_probe: snd_soc_register_card [ 12.753846] davinci-mcasp 4803c000.mcasp: davinci_mcasp_probe: snd_soc_registe...
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