From f26d583e41aedad8159acf9533fa287d7209dfbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Schaefer Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:43:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] s390: deadlock in appldata The system might hang when using appldata_mem with high I/O traffic and a large number of devices. The spinlocks bdev_lock and swaplock are acquired via calls to si_meminfo() and si_swapinfo() from a tasklet, i.e. interrupt context, which can lead to a deadlock. Replace tasklet with work queue. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c') diff --git a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c index b83f0748455..e0a476bf4fd 100644 --- a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c +++ b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct appldata_os_per_cpu { u32 per_cpu_softirq; /* ... spent in softirqs */ u32 per_cpu_iowait; /* ... spent while waiting for I/O */ // <-- New in 2.6 -}; +} __attribute__((packed)); struct appldata_os_data { u64 timestamp; @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct appldata_os_data { /* per cpu data */ struct appldata_os_per_cpu os_cpu[0]; -}; +} __attribute__((packed)); static struct appldata_os_data *appldata_os_data; -- cgit v1.2.3