[PATCH] s390: deadlock in appldata
authorGerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:43:33 +0000 (15:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:13:00 +0000 (17:13 -0700)
The system might hang when using appldata_mem with high I/O traffic and a
large number of devices.  The spinlocks bdev_lock and swaplock are acquired
via calls to si_meminfo() and si_swapinfo() from a tasklet, i.e.  interrupt
context, which can lead to a deadlock.  Replace tasklet with work queue.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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