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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-05-26 11:52:04 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-05-26 11:52:04 -0400
commit7a0287df3e83a0012dfc496d4a8af9c1c5b126ef (patch)
tree27cc2f768de7e9014ffa899117bf219d0f20fb5e /kernel/workqueue.c
parentarch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture (diff)
parentLinux 2.6.39 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 8859a41806dd..e3378e8d3a5c 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1291,8 +1291,14 @@ __acquires(&gcwq->lock)
return true;
spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
- /* CPU has come up in between, retry migration */
+ /*
+ * We've raced with CPU hot[un]plug. Give it a breather
+ * and retry migration. cond_resched() is required here;
+ * otherwise, we might deadlock against cpu_stop trying to
+ * bring down the CPU on non-preemptive kernel.
+ */
cpu_relax();
+ cond_resched();
}
}