Deadlock between tasklist_lock and dcache_lock

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:28:22 +0100 (CET)


__unhash_process acquires the dcache_lock while holding the tasklist_lock
for writing. AFAICS this can deadlock:

CPU1:
[ in release_task() ]
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
__unhash_process()

CPU2:
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
<interrupt>
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);, // e.g. for signal delivery
** spins, lock held by cpu 1 for writing.

CPU1:
[ within __unhash_process() ]
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
** spins, lock held by CPU2

Probably the callers of __unhash_process must acquire the dcache_lock
before write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock).

Any other ideas how to fix the deadlock?

--
	Manfred

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