Oleg Nesterov found an interesting deadlock possibility:
> sysrq_showregs_othercpus() does smp_call_function(showacpu)
> and showacpu() show_stack()->decode_address(). Now suppose that IPI
> interrupts the task holding read_lock(tasklist).
To fix this, blackfin should not grab the write_ variant of the
tasklist lock, read_ one is enough.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 {
        struct task_struct *p;
        struct mm_struct *mm;
-       unsigned long flags, offset;
+       unsigned long offset;
        struct rb_node *n;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
         * mappings of all our processes and see if we can't be a whee
         * bit more specific
         */
-       write_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+       read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
        for_each_process(p) {
                struct task_struct *t;
 
        sprintf(buf, "/* kernel dynamic memory */");
 
 done:
-       write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+       read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 }
 
 #define EXPAND_LEN ((1 << CONFIG_DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN) * 256 - 1)