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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-12-13 09:28:43 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-12-13 09:28:43 +0100
commit20aeeb356ba2e8daa99b5942c528ae2b3ea28433 (patch)
treed2cebc7039954851998d592123899f5627def7a9 /mm/ksm.c
parent07a9e2b2fbdda631eeff54e4b8ebcaaea71be538 (diff)
parent5b84ba26a9672e615897234fa5efd3eea2d6b295 (diff)
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Merge branch 'topic/workq-update' into topic/asoc
Conflicts: sound/soc/codecs/wm8350.c sound/soc/codecs/wm8753.c sound/soc/sh/fsi.c sound/soc/soc-core.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 65ab5c7067d9..43bc893470b4 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1724,8 +1724,13 @@ static int ksm_memory_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
/*
* Keep it very simple for now: just lock out ksmd and
* MADV_UNMERGEABLE while any memory is going offline.
+ * mutex_lock_nested() is necessary because lockdep was alarmed
+ * that here we take ksm_thread_mutex inside notifier chain
+ * mutex, and later take notifier chain mutex inside
+ * ksm_thread_mutex to unlock it. But that's safe because both
+ * are inside mem_hotplug_mutex.
*/
- mutex_lock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&ksm_thread_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
break;
case MEM_OFFLINE:
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