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SubjectRe: [patch] sched: unlocked context-switches
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:15:37 -0700
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> Yes, of course. The deadlock was due to context-switching, not
> switch_mm() per se. Hopefully someone else beats me to remembering
> the details before Monday.

Sparc64 has a deadlock because we hold mm->page_table_lock during
switch_mm(). I bet IA64 did something similar, as I remember it
had a very similar locking issue in this area.

So the deadlock was, we held the runqueue locks over switch_mm(),
switch_mm() spins on mm->page_table_lock, the cpu which does have
mm->page_table_lock tries to do a wakeup on the first cpu's runqueue.
Classic AB-BA deadlock.
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