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diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 34556359c7da..627ad05064e0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -925,6 +925,30 @@ int device_driver_attach(struct device_driver *drv, struct device *dev)
return ret;
}
+static void __driver_attach_async_helper(void *_dev, async_cookie_t cookie)
+{
+ struct device *dev = _dev;
+ struct device_driver *drv;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ __device_driver_lock(dev, dev->parent);
+
+ drv = dev->p->async_driver;
+
+ /*
+ * If device has been removed or someone has already successfully
+ * bound a driver before us just skip the driver probe call.
+ */
+ if (!dev->p->dead && !dev->driver)
+ ret = driver_probe_device(drv, dev);
+
+ __device_driver_unlock(dev, dev->parent);
+
+ dev_dbg(dev, "driver %s async attach completed: %d\n", drv->name, ret);
+
+ put_device(dev);
+}
+
static int __driver_attach(struct device *dev, void *data)
{
struct device_driver *drv = data;
@@ -952,6 +976,25 @@ static int __driver_attach(struct device *dev, void *data)
return ret;
} /* ret > 0 means positive match */
+ if (driver_allows_async_probing(drv)) {
+ /*
+ * Instead of probing the device synchronously we will
+ * probe it asynchronously to allow for more parallelism.
+ *
+ * We only take the device lock here in order to guarantee
+ * that the dev->driver and async_driver fields are protected
+ */
+ dev_dbg(dev, "probing driver %s asynchronously\n", drv->name);
+ device_lock(dev);
+ if (!dev->driver) {
+ get_device(dev);
+ dev->p->async_driver = drv;
+ async_schedule(__driver_attach_async_helper, dev);
+ }
+ device_unlock(dev);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
device_driver_attach(drv, dev);
return 0;