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Commit 4557398f authored by Kirill Korotaev's avatar Kirill Korotaev Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] stop_machine() vs. synchronous IPI send deadlock



This fixes deadlock of stop_machine() vs.  synchronous IPI send.  The
problem is that stop_machine() disables interrupts before disabling
preemption on other CPUs.  So if another CPU is preempted and then calls
something like flush_tlb_all() it will deadlock with CPU doing
stop_machine() and which can't process IPI due to disabled IRQs.

I changed stop_machine() to do the same things exactly as it does on other
CPUs, i.e.  it should disable preemption first on _all_ CPUs including
itself and only after that disable IRQs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Andrey Savochkin" <saw@sawoct.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c5b60979
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