Merge branch 'devel' of ssh://master.kernel.org/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm into devel

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index a85678865c5e..f76db9dcaa05 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@
 #include <linux/cgroup.h>
 
 /*
+ * Workqueue for cpuset related tasks.
+ *
+ * Using kevent workqueue may cause deadlock when memory_migrate
+ * is set. So we create a separate workqueue thread for cpuset.
+ */
+static struct workqueue_struct *cpuset_wq;
+
+/*
  * Tracks how many cpusets are currently defined in system.
  * When there is only one cpuset (the root cpuset) we can
  * short circuit some hooks.
@@ -831,7 +839,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(rebuild_sched_domains_work, do_rebuild_sched_domains);
  */
 static void async_rebuild_sched_domains(void)
 {
-	schedule_work(&rebuild_sched_domains_work);
+	queue_work(cpuset_wq, &rebuild_sched_domains_work);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2111,6 +2119,9 @@ void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
 
 	hotcpu_notifier(cpuset_track_online_cpus, 0);
 	hotplug_memory_notifier(cpuset_track_online_nodes, 10);
+
+	cpuset_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cpuset");
+	BUG_ON(!cpuset_wq);
 }
 
 /**