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powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code
author
Anton Blanchard
<anton@samba.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:15 +0000
(09:43 +0000)
committer
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:53:23 +0000
(15:53 +1000)
The icswx code introduced an A-B B-A deadlock:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&anon_vma->mutex);
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
lock(&anon_vma->mutex);
lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
Instead of using the mmap_sem to keep mm_users constant, take the
page table spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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