[PATCH] s390: deadlock in appldata

The system might hang when using appldata_mem with high I/O traffic and a
large number of devices.  The spinlocks bdev_lock and swaplock are acquired
via calls to si_meminfo() and si_swapinfo() from a tasklet, i.e.  interrupt
context, which can lead to a deadlock.  Replace tasklet with work queue.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c
index b83f07484551..e0a476bf4fd6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c
+++ b/arch/s390/appldata/appldata_os.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct appldata_os_per_cpu {
         u32 per_cpu_softirq;    /* ... spent in softirqs            */
         u32 per_cpu_iowait;     /* ... spent while waiting for I/O  */
 // <-- New in 2.6
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct appldata_os_data {
         u64 timestamp;
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct appldata_os_data {
 
         /* per cpu data */
         struct appldata_os_per_cpu os_cpu[0];
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));
 
 static struct appldata_os_data *appldata_os_data;