Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 8859a41806dd..0400553f0d04 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1291,8 +1291,14 @@ __acquires(&gcwq->lock)
 			return true;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
 
-		/* CPU has come up in between, retry migration */
+		/*
+		 * We've raced with CPU hot[un]plug.  Give it a breather
+		 * and retry migration.  cond_resched() is required here;
+		 * otherwise, we might deadlock against cpu_stop trying to
+		 * bring down the CPU on non-preemptive kernel.
+		 */
 		cpu_relax();
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2860,9 +2866,7 @@ static int alloc_cwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* just in case, make sure it's actually aligned
-	 * - this is affected by PERCPU() alignment in vmlinux.lds.S
-	 */
+	/* just in case, make sure it's actually aligned */
 	BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(wq->cpu_wq.v, align));
 	return wq->cpu_wq.v ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
 }