[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix locking in cpufreq drivers
authorAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2005 05:34:24 +0000 (21:34 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:55:50 +0000 (07:55 -0800)
When calling target drivers to set frequency, we take cpucontrol lock.
When we modified the code to accomodate CPU hotplug, there was an attempt
to take a double lock of cpucontrol leading to a deadlock.  Since the
current thread context is already holding the cpucontrol lock, we dont need
to make another attempt to acquire it.

Now we leave a trace in current->flags indicating current thread already is
under cpucontrol lock held, so we dont attempt to do this another time.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for the beating:-)

From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>

  Build fix

(akpm: this patch is still unpleasant.  Ashok continues to look for a cleaner
solution, doesn't he?  ;))

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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