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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-07-26 16:08:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-26 16:49:42 -0700
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parentrtc: limit frequency (diff)
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rtc: fix hrtimer deadlock
Ben reported a lockup related to rtc. The lockup happens due to: CPU0 CPU1 rtc_irq_set_state() __run_hrtimer() spin_lock_irqsave(&rtc->irq_task_lock) rtc_handle_legacy_irq(); spin_lock(&rtc->irq_task_lock); hrtimer_cancel() while (callback_running); So the running callback never finishes as it's blocked on rtc->irq_task_lock. Use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() instead and drop rtc->irq_task_lock while waiting for the callback. Fix this for both rtc_irq_set_state() and rtc_irq_set_freq(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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