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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-24 12:48:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-24 12:48:46 +0200
commit8c82a17e9c924c0e9f13e75e4c2f6bca19a4b516 (patch)
treed535f46a917e14e90deccb29ad00aac016ad18dd /kernel/timer.c
parent4ce72a2c063a7fa8e42a9435440ae3364115a58d (diff)
parent57f8f7b60db6f1ed2c6918ab9230c4623a9dbe37 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc1' into sched/urgent
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/timer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/timer.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 510fe69351c..56becf373c5 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -1436,9 +1436,11 @@ static void __cpuinit migrate_timers(int cpu)
BUG_ON(cpu_online(cpu));
old_base = per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu);
new_base = get_cpu_var(tvec_bases);
-
- local_irq_disable();
- spin_lock(&new_base->lock);
+ /*
+ * The caller is globally serialized and nobody else
+ * takes two locks at once, deadlock is not possible.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irq(&new_base->lock);
spin_lock_nested(&old_base->lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
BUG_ON(old_base->running_timer);
@@ -1453,8 +1455,7 @@ static void __cpuinit migrate_timers(int cpu)
}
spin_unlock(&old_base->lock);
- spin_unlock(&new_base->lock);
- local_irq_enable();
+ spin_unlock_irq(&new_base->lock);
put_cpu_var(tvec_bases);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */