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powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:15 +0000 (09:43 +0000)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 19:18:15 +0000 (11:18 -0800)
commit11f072ac74bd59b4c31ff8e9d5ec67c56f8511be
treeb683f6356fd377e68594ba6059003d0deecd1aef
parent36c9ef346e06531e99a3f0cea5fb28c328dd81e9
powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code

commit 8bdafa39a47265bc029838b35cc6585f69224afa upstream.

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 <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c