From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:17:31 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Move ondemand timer into own work queue X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc4~15 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6810b548b25114607e0814612d84125abccc0a4f;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] x86_64: Move ondemand timer into own work queue Taking the cpu hotplug semaphore in a normal events workqueue is unsafe because other tasks can wait for any workqueues with it hold. This results in a deadlock. Move the DBS timer into its own work queue which is not affected by other work queue flushes to avoid this. Has been acked by Venkatesh. Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed