From 34dcc7657b7e11976cb9ab67e0bd3135539c97ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maciej Sosnowski Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:26:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] dca: redesign locks to fix deadlocks commit eb4400e3a040b90a3ad805b01fcbc99a5f615c8f upstream. Change spin_locks to irqsave to prevent dead-locks. Protect adding and deleting to/from dca_providers list. Drop the lock during dca_sysfs_add_req() and dca_sysfs_remove_req() calls as they might sleep (use GFP_KERNEL allocation). Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed