Commit db751fe3 authored by John Stultz's avatar John Stultz Committed by Ingo Molnar
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cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed

After adding lockdep support to seqlock/seqcount structures,
I started seeing the following warning:

[    1.070907] ======================================================
[    1.072015] [ INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected ]
[    1.073181] 3.11.0+ #67 Not tainted
[    1.073801] ------------------------------------------------------
[    1.074882] kworker/u4:2/708 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
[    1.076088]  (&p->mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81187d7f>] new_slab+0x5f/0x280
[    1.077572]
[    1.077572] and this task is already holding:
[    1.078593]  (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff81339f03>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x53/0xf0
[    1.080042] which would create a new lock dependency:
[    1.080042]  (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock){..-...} -> (&p->mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}
[    1.080042]
[    1.080042] but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock:
[    1.080042]  (&(&q->__queue_loc...
parent 1ca7d67c
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