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Commit a496e25d authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] Fix cpufreq vs hotplug lockdep recursion.



[ There's some not quite baked bits in cpufreq-git right now
  so sending this on as a patch instead ]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:58 -0700, Tom London wrote:

> After installing .2356 I get this each time I boot:
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> S06cpuspeed/1620 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (dbs_mutex){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (cpucontrol){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>

make sure the cpu hotplug recursive mutex (yuck) is taken early in the
cpufreq codepaths to avoid a AB-BA deadlock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 120bda20
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