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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check lives before the owner running check. This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back & re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to sleep. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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