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-From patchwork Wed Sep 14 19:43:15 2011
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
-MIME-Version: 1.0
-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
-Subject: powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code
-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:15 -0000
-From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
-X-Patchwork-Id: 114701
-Message-Id: <20110915054315.5e5ae062@kryten>
-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org
-Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
-
-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>
-Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
-
----
-
-
-diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c
-index 3bafc3d..4ff587e 100644
---- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c
-+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c
-@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@ int use_cop(unsigned long acop, struct mm_struct *mm)
- if (!mm || !acop)
- return -EINVAL;
-
-- /* We need to make sure mm_users doesn't change */
-- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-+ /* The page_table_lock ensures mm_users won't change under us */
-+ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- spin_lock(mm->context.cop_lockp);
-
- if (mm->context.cop_pid == COP_PID_NONE) {
-@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ int use_cop(unsigned long acop, struct mm_struct *mm)
-
- out:
- spin_unlock(mm->context.cop_lockp);
-- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-+ spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-
- return ret;
- }
-@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ void drop_cop(unsigned long acop, struct mm_struct *mm)
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm))
- return;
-
-- /* We need to make sure mm_users doesn't change */
-- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-+ /* The page_table_lock ensures mm_users won't change under us */
-+ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- spin_lock(mm->context.cop_lockp);
-
- mm->context.acop &= ~acop;
-@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ void drop_cop(unsigned long acop, struct mm_struct *mm)
- }
-
- spin_unlock(mm->context.cop_lockp);
-- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-+ spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- }
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drop_cop);
-
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