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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 11:51:08 -0700
commit271ecc5253e2b317d729d366560789cd7f93836c (patch)
treed3a60bc4dfa8245ff934f357f2367db76b59e7cf /drivers/xen/balloon.c
parentaa6865d836418eb2ba888a4cb1318a28e9aa2e0c (diff)
parent63c06227a22b098a3849c5c99e836aea161ca0d7 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - some misc things - ofs2 updates - about half of MM - checkpatch updates - autofs4 update * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) autofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h autofs4: use pr_xxx() macros directly for logging autofs4: change log print macros to not insert newline autofs4: make autofs log prints consistent autofs4: fix some white space errors autofs4: fix invalid ioctl return in autofs4_root_ioctl_unlocked() autofs4: fix coding style line length in autofs4_wait() autofs4: fix coding style problem in autofs4_get_set_timeout() autofs4: coding style fixes autofs: show pipe inode in mount options kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP checkpatch: fix another left brace warning checkpatch: improve UNSPECIFIED_INT test for bare signed/unsigned uses checkpatch: warn on bare unsigned or signed declarations without int checkpatch: exclude asm volatile from complex macro check mm: memcontrol: drop unnecessary lru locking from mem_cgroup_migrate() mm: migrate: consolidate mem_cgroup_migrate() calls mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen/balloon.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/balloon.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index dc4305b407bf..7c8a2cf16f58 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -338,7 +338,16 @@ static enum bp_state reserve_additional_memory(void)
}
#endif
- rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource);
+ /*
+ * add_memory_resource() will call online_pages() which in its turn
+ * will call xen_online_page() callback causing deadlock if we don't
+ * release balloon_mutex here. Unlocking here is safe because the
+ * callers drop the mutex before trying again.
+ */
+ mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex);
+ rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, memhp_auto_online);
+ mutex_lock(&balloon_mutex);
+
if (rc) {
pr_warn("Cannot add additional memory (%i)\n", rc);
goto err;