xen/irq: Alter the locking to use a mutex instead of a spinlock.
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:10:00 +0000 (05:10 -0400)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:32:02 +0000 (04:32 -0400)
commit773659483685d652970583384a0294948e57f8b3
treee2e40e855c13f2214143a8ecce3a7736b8b64a28
parente3b73c4a25e9a5705b4ef28b91676caf01f9bc9f
xen/irq: Alter the locking to use a mutex instead of a spinlock.

When we allocate/change the IRQ informations, we do not
need to use spinlocks. We can use a mutex (which is
what the generic IRQ code does for allocations/changes).
Fixes a slew of:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /linux/kernel/mutex.c:271
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3216, name: xenstored
2 locks held by xenstored/3216:
 #0:  (&u->bind_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffffa02e0920>] evtchn_ioctl+0x30/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
 #1:  (irq_mapping_update_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8138b274>] bind_evtchn_to_irq+0x24/0x90
Pid: 3216, comm: xenstored Not tainted 3.1.0-rc6-00021-g437a3d1 #2
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81088d10>] __might_sleep+0x100/0x130
 [<ffffffff81645c2f>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2f/0x50
 [<ffffffff81627529>] __irq_alloc_descs+0x49/0x200
 [<ffffffffa02e0920>] ? evtchn_ioctl+0x30/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
 [<ffffffff8138b214>] xen_allocate_irq_dynamic+0x34/0x70
 [<ffffffff8138b2ad>] bind_evtchn_to_irq+0x5d/0x90
 [<ffffffffa02e03c0>] ? evtchn_bind_to_user+0x60/0x60 [xen_evtchn]
 [<ffffffff8138c282>] bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler+0x32/0x80
 [<ffffffffa02e03a9>] evtchn_bind_to_user+0x49/0x60 [xen_evtchn]
 [<ffffffffa02e0a34>] evtchn_ioctl+0x144/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
 [<ffffffff811b4070>] ? vfsmount_lock_local_unlock+0x50/0x80
 [<ffffffff811a6a1a>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x9a/0x5e0
 [<ffffffff811b476f>] ? mntput+0x1f/0x30
 [<ffffffff81196259>] ? fput+0x199/0x240
 [<ffffffff811a7001>] sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8164ea82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Reported-by: Jim Burns <jim_burn@bellsouth.net>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
drivers/xen/events.c