Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c
index 470d08c82bb..bdb18032555 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/handle.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c
@@ -54,14 +54,18 @@ static void warn_no_thread(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
 static void irq_wake_thread(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action)
 {
 	/*
-	 * Wake up the handler thread for this action. In case the
-	 * thread crashed and was killed we just pretend that we
-	 * handled the interrupt. The hardirq handler has disabled the
-	 * device interrupt, so no irq storm is lurking. If the
+	 * In case the thread crashed and was killed we just pretend that
+	 * we handled the interrupt. The hardirq handler has disabled the
+	 * device interrupt, so no irq storm is lurking.
+	 */
+	if (action->thread->flags & PF_EXITING)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Wake up the handler thread for this action. If the
 	 * RUNTHREAD bit is already set, nothing to do.
 	 */
-	if (test_bit(IRQTF_DIED, &action->thread_flags) ||
-	    test_and_set_bit(IRQTF_RUNTHREAD, &action->thread_flags))
+	if (test_and_set_bit(IRQTF_RUNTHREAD, &action->thread_flags))
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -110,6 +114,18 @@ static void irq_wake_thread(struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *action)
 	 * threads_oneshot untouched and runs the thread another time.
 	 */
 	desc->threads_oneshot |= action->thread_mask;
+
+	/*
+	 * We increment the threads_active counter in case we wake up
+	 * the irq thread. The irq thread decrements the counter when
+	 * it returns from the handler or in the exit path and wakes
+	 * up waiters which are stuck in synchronize_irq() when the
+	 * active count becomes zero. synchronize_irq() is serialized
+	 * against this code (hard irq handler) via IRQS_INPROGRESS
+	 * like the finalize_oneshot() code. See comment above.
+	 */
+	atomic_inc(&desc->threads_active);
+
 	wake_up_process(action->thread);
 }