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console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning
When running certain workload on a debug kernel with lockdep turned on, a ppc64 kvm guest could sometimes hit the following lockdep warning: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&mm->mmap_sem); lock(console_lock); lock(&mm->mmap_sem); lock(cpu_hotplug.lock); *** DEADLOCK *** Looking at the console code, the console_lock-->mmap_sem scenario will only happen when reading or writing the console unicode map leading to a page fault. To break this circular locking dependency, all the userspace I/O operations in consolemap.c are now moved outside of the console_lock critical sections so that the mmap_sem won't be acquired when holding the console_lock. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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