This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI / cpuidle: fix deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpi-cpuidle-fix-deadlock-between-cpuidle_lock-and-cpu_hotplug.lock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6726655dfdd2dc60c035c690d9f10cb69d7ea075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:04:28 +0200
Subject: ACPI / cpuidle: fix deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
commit 6726655dfdd2dc60c035c690d9f10cb69d7ea075 upstream.
There is a following AB-BA dependency between cpu_hotplug.lock and
cpuidle_lock:
1) cpu_hotplug.lock -> cpuidle_lock
enable_nonboot_cpus()
_cpu_up()
cpu_hotplug_begin()
LOCK(cpu_hotplug.lock)
cpu_notify()
...
acpi_processor_hotplug()
cpuidle_pause_and_lock()
LOCK(cpuidle_lock)
2) cpuidle_lock -> cpu_hotplug.lock
acpi_os_execute_deferred() workqueue
...
acpi_processor_cst_has_changed()
cpuidle_pause_and_lock()
LOCK(cpuidle_lock)
get_online_cpus()
LOCK(cpu_hotplug.lock)
Fix this by reversing the order acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() does
thigs -- let it first execute the protection against CPU hotplug by
calling get_online_cpus() and obtain the cpuidle lock only after that (and
perform the symmentric change when allowing CPUs hotplug again and
dropping cpuidle lock).
Spotted by lockdep.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -1071,9 +1071,9 @@ int acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(struc
if (pr->id == 0 && cpuidle_get_driver() == &acpi_idle_driver) {
- cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
/* Protect against cpu-hotplug */
get_online_cpus();
+ cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
/* Disable all cpuidle devices */
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -1100,8 +1100,8 @@ int acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(struc
cpuidle_enable_device(dev);
}
}
- put_online_cpus();
cpuidle_resume_and_unlock();
+ put_online_cpus();
}
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jkosina@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/acpi-cpuidle-fix-deadlock-between-cpuidle_lock-and-cpu_hotplug.lock.patch
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