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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-04-30 09:15:40 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-04-30 09:15:40 -0700 |
commit | 3fd9952df4964fac7d5868ba48eadcc9dae3ba46 (patch) | |
tree | ac5ad53b758329fbd5d38972a26fb8380092a649 /kernel | |
parent | 1be6a1f89f131e9c3d22f819ec542be9cda8c9e3 (diff) | |
parent | 5035b20fa5cd146b66f5f89619c20a4177fb736d (diff) |
Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
workqueue: Document debugging tricks
Fix up trivial spelling conflict in kernel/workqueue.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 8859a41806dd..e3378e8d3a5c 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1291,8 +1291,14 @@ __acquires(&gcwq->lock) return true; spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock); - /* CPU has come up in between, retry migration */ + /* + * We've raced with CPU hot[un]plug. Give it a breather + * and retry migration. cond_resched() is required here; + * otherwise, we might deadlock against cpu_stop trying to + * bring down the CPU on non-preemptive kernel. + */ cpu_relax(); + cond_resched(); } } |