kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix reiserfs lock to cpu_add_remove_lock dependency
While creating the reiserfs workqueue during the journal initialization, we are holding the reiserfs lock, but create_workqueue() also holds the cpu_add_remove_lock, creating then the following dependency: - reiserfs lock -> cpu_add_remove_lock But we also have the following existing dependencies: - mm->mmap_sem -> reiserfs lock - cpu_add_remove_lock -> cpu_hotplug.lock -> slub_lock -> sysfs_mutex The merged dependency chain then becomes: - mm->mmap_sem -> reiserfs lock -> cpu_add_remove_lock -> cpu_hotplug.lock -> slub_lock -> sysfs_mutex But when we fill a dir entry in sysfs_readir(), we are holding the sysfs_mutex and we also might fault while copying the directory entry to the user, leading to the following dependency: - sysfs_mutex -> mm->mmap_sem The end result is then a lock inversion between sysfs_mutex and mm->mmap_sem, as reported in the following lockdep warning: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency det...
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