commit 64efade11cddc4237c1b95ea4ca18af122a7e19e
author Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Sun Nov 05 23:52:10 2006 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Mon Nov 06 01:46:23 2006 -0800
tree 0a98f64b43f1b1199a45bcdff07743afbb526989
parent e5b9a335fd2180c6db1bcc4b24e83aff7481ebe3

[PATCH] lockdep: fix delayacct locking bug

Make the delayacct lock irqsave; this avoids the possible deadlock where
an interrupt is taken while holding the delayacct lock which needs to
take the delayacct lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/delayacct.c

diff --git a/kernel/delayacct.c b/kernel/delayacct.c
index 36752f1..66a0ea4 100644
--- a/kernel/delayacct.c
+++ b/kernel/delayacct.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 {
 	struct timespec ts;
 	s64 ns;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(end);
 	ts = timespec_sub(*end, *start);
@@ -73,10 +74,10 @@
 	if (ns < 0)
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock(&current->delays->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&current->delays->lock, flags);
 	*total += ns;
 	(*count)++;
-	spin_unlock(&current->delays->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->delays->lock, flags);
 }
 
 void __delayacct_blkio_start(void)
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@
 	s64 tmp;
 	struct timespec ts;
 	unsigned long t1,t2,t3;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/* Though tsk->delays accessed later, early exit avoids
 	 * unnecessary returning of other data
@@ -136,14 +138,14 @@
 
 	/* zero XXX_total, non-zero XXX_count implies XXX stat overflowed */
 
-	spin_lock(&tsk->delays->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 	tmp = d->blkio_delay_total + tsk->delays->blkio_delay;
 	d->blkio_delay_total = (tmp < d->blkio_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	tmp = d->swapin_delay_total + tsk->delays->swapin_delay;
 	d->swapin_delay_total = (tmp < d->swapin_delay_total) ? 0 : tmp;
 	d->blkio_count += tsk->delays->blkio_count;
 	d->swapin_count += tsk->delays->swapin_count;
-	spin_unlock(&tsk->delays->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 
 done:
 	return 0;
@@ -152,11 +154,12 @@
 __u64 __delayacct_blkio_ticks(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	__u64 ret;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock(&tsk->delays->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 	ret = nsec_to_clock_t(tsk->delays->blkio_delay +
 				tsk->delays->swapin_delay);
-	spin_unlock(&tsk->delays->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tsk->delays->lock, flags);
 	return ret;
 }