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Andi Kleen authored
Taking the cpu hotplug semaphore in a normal events workqueue is unsafe because other tasks can wait for any workqueues with it hold. This results in a deadlock. Move the DBS timer into its own work queue which is not affected by other work queue flushes to avoid this. Has been acked by Venkatesh. Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>6810b548