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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-02-16 15:45:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-03-10 09:41:57 +0100 |
| commit | a79e53d85683c6dd9f99c90511028adc2043031f (patch) | |
| tree | 191f423331b608a5f7f134f484ce62a9ee7fb4a6 /arch/x86/xen | |
| parent | f86268549f424f83b9eb0963989270e14fbfc3de (diff) | |
x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock
It's forbidden to take the page_table_lock with the irq disabled
or if there's contention the IPIs (for tlb flushes) sent with
the page_table_lock held will never run leading to a deadlock.
Nobody takes the pgd_lock from irq context so the _irqsave can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <201102162345.p1GNjMjm021738@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/xen')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c index 5e92b61ad57..f6089421147 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c @@ -986,10 +986,9 @@ static void xen_pgd_pin(struct mm_struct *mm) */ void xen_mm_pin_all(void) { - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { if (!PagePinned(page)) { @@ -998,7 +997,7 @@ void xen_mm_pin_all(void) } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } /* @@ -1099,10 +1098,9 @@ static void xen_pgd_unpin(struct mm_struct *mm) */ void xen_mm_unpin_all(void) { - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { if (PageSavePinned(page)) { @@ -1112,7 +1110,7 @@ void xen_mm_unpin_all(void) } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } void xen_activate_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next) |