[PATCH] of: Fix locking vs. interrupts

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:25:56 +0200 (CEST), Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > The OF code uses irqsafe locks everywhere except in a handful of functions
> > for no obvious reasons. Since the conversion from the old rwlocks, this
> > now triggers lockdep warnings when used at interrupt time. At least one
> > driver (ibmvscsi) seems to be doing that from softirq context.
> > 
> > This converts the few non-irqsafe locks into irqsafe ones, making them
> > consistent with the rest of the code.
> 
> Fun. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/4/416 seems to have got lost 
>  
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > CC: <stable at vger.kernel.org> [v3.9+]
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > Note: It's silly to access the device-tree at interrupt time in most cases,
> > and we should probably fix ibmvscsi, but for the time being, let's fix the
> 
> Right.
> 
> > obvious bug. Thomas, this can probably still go into 3.10... If not, I've
> > CCed stable.
> 
> Should go through Grant I think.

Applied, thanks.

g.