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Martin Schwidefsky committed 01548f4d3e8
clocksource: Avoid clocksource watchdog circular locking dependency stop_machine from a multithreaded workqueue is not allowed because of a circular locking dependency between cpu_down and the workqueue execution. Use a kernel thread to do the clocksource downgrade. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090818170942.3ab80c91@skybase> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>