From eb4400e3a040b90a3ad805b01fcbc99a5f615c8f 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 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 --- Reading git-format-patch failed