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Commit 01548f4d authored by Martin Schwidefsky's avatar Martin Schwidefsky Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency



stop_machine from a multithreaded workqueue is not allowed because
of a circular locking dependency between cpu_down and the workqueue
execution. Use a kernel thread to do the clocksource downgrade.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090818170942.3ab80c91@skybase>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent d0981a1b
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