linux/arch/powerpc
Anton Blanchard 8bdafa39a4 powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code
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>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-09-20 15:53:23 +10:00
..
boot Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into next 2011-09-20 15:52:38 +10:00
configs Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into next 2011-09-20 15:52:38 +10:00
include/asm powerpc: Fix oops when echoing bad values to /sys/devices/system/memory/probe 2011-09-20 15:53:23 +10:00
kernel powerpc: Coding style cleanups 2011-09-20 15:53:23 +10:00
kvm powerpc/kvm: Fix build errors with older toolchains 2011-08-05 14:47:56 +10:00
lib Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-05-20 13:28:01 -07:00
math-emu powerpc/85xx: Fix SPE float to integer conversion failure 2011-03-15 13:48:15 -05:00
mm powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code 2011-09-20 15:53:23 +10:00
net net: filter: BPF 'JIT' compiler for PPC64 2011-07-21 12:38:32 -07:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
platforms powerpc/ps3: Add gelic udbg driver 2011-09-20 09:20:05 +10:00
sysdev powerpc/xics: Add __init to marker icp_native_init() 2011-09-20 09:20:02 +10:00
xmon powerpc: Remove call sites of MSG_ALL_BUT_SELF 2011-05-19 14:30:46 +10:00
Kconfig powerpc: Hugetlb for BookE 2011-09-20 09:19:40 +10:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/ps3: Add gelic udbg driver 2011-09-20 09:20:05 +10:00
Makefile Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00
relocs_check.pl