linux-stable.git/lib, branch linux-2.6.11.y Linux kernel stable tree [PATCH] rwsem fix 2005-05-12T17:00:19+00:00 akpm@osdl.org akpm@osdl.org 2005-04-07T18:35:46+00:00 c05aa51378f0b9fe1ce0d65b6c6b886dd32dd383 We should merge this backport - it's needed to prevent deadlocks when dio_complete() does up_read() from IRQ context. And perhaps other places. From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks The attached patch makes read/write semaphores use interrupt disabling spinlocks in the slow path, thus rendering the up functions and trylock functions available for use in interrupt context. This matches the regular semaphore behaviour. I've assumed that the normal down functions must be called with interrupts enabled (since they might schedule), and used the irq-disabling spinlock variants that don't save the flags. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
We should merge this backport - it's needed to prevent deadlocks when
dio_complete() does up_read() from IRQ context.  And perhaps other places.

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

[PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

The attached patch makes read/write semaphores use interrupt disabling
spinlocks in the slow path, thus rendering the up functions and trylock
functions available for use in interrupt context.  This matches the
regular semaphore behaviour.

I've assumed that the normal down functions must be called with interrupts
enabled (since they might schedule), and used the irq-disabling spinlock
variants that don't save the flags.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2.6.11 import 2005-05-12T16:59:06+00:00 Greg KH gregkh@suse.de 2005-05-12T16:59:06+00:00 279a9acc9b72a11091f4bd4781f8aa91071acc2e