acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock
authorStuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:10:45 +0000 (16:10 -0500)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:51:13 +0000 (00:51 -0400)
commit5f1601261050251a5ca293378b492a69d590dacb
treee2395916caa5bc1ab2a3b28770f6433551e3b16f
parent76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc
acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock

The acpi_pad driver can get stuck in destroy_power_saving_task()
waiting for kthread_stop() to stop a power_saving thread.  The problem
is that the isolated_cpus_lock mutex is owned when
destroy_power_saving_task() calls kthread_stop(), which waits for a
power_saving thread to end, and the power_saving thread tries to
acquire the isolated_cpus_lock when it calls round_robin_cpu().  This
patch fixes the issue by making round_robin_cpu() use its own mutex.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42981

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c