From: Andreas Larsson <andr...@gaisler.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:23:23 +0100
> Load balancing can be triggered in the critical sections protected by
> srmmu_context_spinlock in destroy_context() and switch_mm() and can hang
> the cpu waiting for the rq lock of another cpu that in turn has called
> switch_mm hangning on srmmu_context_spinlock leading to deadlock.
>
> So, disable interrupt while taking srmmu_context_spinlock in
> destroy_context() and switch_mm() so we don't deadlock.
>
> See also commit 77b838fa1ef0 ("[SPARC64]: destroy_context() needs to disable
> interrupts.")
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andr...@gaisler.com>
Looks good, applied, thanks Andreas.
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