[PATCH 8/8] acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock

From: Len Brown
Date: Sat Jun 30 2012 - 01:15:23 EST


From: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx>

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

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
index a43fa1a..1502c502 100644
--- 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 tsk_index)
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 tsk_index)
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_index)
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));
}
--
1.7.11.1.104.ge7b44f1

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