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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2012-03-02 15:36:57 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2014-04-10 00:20:00 (GMT)
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cpu: Make hotplug.lock a "sleeping" spinlock on RT
Tasks can block on hotplug.lock in pin_current_cpu(), but their state might be != RUNNING. So the mutex wakeup will set the state unconditionally to RUNNING. That might cause spurious unexpected wakeups. We could provide a state preserving mutex_lock() function, but this is semantically backwards. So instead we convert the hotplug.lock() to a spinlock for RT, which has the state preserving semantics already. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com> Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330702617.25686.265.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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