From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161757Ab2GLWkF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:40:05 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:64093 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161738Ab2GLWj4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:39:56 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Stuart Hayes , Len Brown Subject: [ 076/187] acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:33:52 -0700 Message-Id: <20120712191529.458486531@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120712191522.742634173@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120712192421.GA28926@kroah.com> <20120712191522.742634173@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-20.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stuart Hayes commit 5f1601261050251a5ca293378b492a69d590dacb upstream. The acpi_pad driver can get stuck in destroy_power_saving_task() waiting for kthread_stop() to stop a power_saving thread. The problem is that the isolated_cpus_lock mutex is owned when destroy_power_saving_task() calls kthread_stop(), which waits for a power_saving thread to end, and the power_saving thread tries to acquire the isolated_cpus_lock when it calls round_robin_cpu(). This patch fixes the issue by making round_robin_cpu() use its own mutex. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42981 Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_DEVICE_NAME "Processor Aggregator" #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_NOTIFY 0x80 static DEFINE_MUTEX(isolated_cpus_lock); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(round_robin_lock); static unsigned long power_saving_mwait_eax; @@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ static void round_robin_cpu(unsigned int if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL)) return; - mutex_lock(&isolated_cpus_lock); + mutex_lock(&round_robin_lock); cpumask_clear(tmp); for_each_cpu(cpu, pad_busy_cpus) cpumask_or(tmp, tmp, topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)); @@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ static void round_robin_cpu(unsigned int if (cpumask_empty(tmp)) cpumask_andnot(tmp, cpu_online_mask, pad_busy_cpus); if (cpumask_empty(tmp)) { - mutex_unlock(&isolated_cpus_lock); + mutex_unlock(&round_robin_lock); return; } for_each_cpu(cpu, tmp) { @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ static void round_robin_cpu(unsigned int tsk_in_cpu[tsk_index] = preferred_cpu; cpumask_set_cpu(preferred_cpu, pad_busy_cpus); cpu_weight[preferred_cpu]++; - mutex_unlock(&isolated_cpus_lock); + mutex_unlock(&round_robin_lock); set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(preferred_cpu)); }