From: Anton Blanchard Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:15 +0000 (+0000) Subject: powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc1~34^2~70 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8bdafa39a47265bc029838b35cc6585f69224afa;p=pandora-kernel.git powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code 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 Cc: Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- Reading git-diff-tree failed