From: nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 02:22:56 +0000 (+0530) Subject: [SCSI] mpt2sas: Release spinlock for the raid device list before blocking it X-Git-Tag: v3.3-rc1~124^2~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30c43282f3d347f47f9e05199d2b14f56f3f2837;p=pandora-kernel.git [SCSI] mpt2sas: Release spinlock for the raid device list before blocking it Added code to release the spinlock that is used to protect the raid device list before calling a function that can block. The blocking was causing a reschedule, and subsequently it is tried to acquire the same lock, resulting in a panic (NMI Watchdog detecting a CPU lockup). Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Reading git-diff-tree failed