Commit f90d4118 authored by Miao Xie's avatar Miao Xie Committed by Ingo Molnar
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cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains

Lockdep reported some possible circular locking info when we tested cpuset on
NUMA/fake NUMA box.

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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.29-rc1-00224-ga6525042 #111
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bash/2968 is trying to acquire lock:
 (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8024c8cd>] flush_work+0x24/0xd8

but task is already holding lock:
 (cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8026ad1e>] cgroup_lock_live_group+0x12/0x29

which lock already depends on the new lock.
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Steps to reproduce:
# mkdir /dev/cpuset
# mount -t cpuset xxx /dev/cpuset
# mkdir /dev/cpuset/0
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/cpus
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/mems
# echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/0/memory_migrate
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/null &
# echo $! > /dev/cpuset/0/tasks

This is because async_rebuild_sched_domains has the following lock sequence:
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