Rabin Vincent f2b42866b1 MIPS: perf: fix deadlock
mipsxx_pmu_handle_shared_irq() calls irq_work_run() while holding the
pmuint_rwlock for read.  irq_work_run() can, via perf_pending_event(),
call try_to_wake_up() which can try to take rq->lock.

However, perf can also call perf_pmu_enable() (and thus take the
pmuint_rwlock for write) while holding the rq->lock, from
finish_task_switch() via perf_event_context_sched_in().

This leads to an ABBA deadlock:

 PID: 3855   TASK: 8f7ce288  CPU: 2   COMMAND: "process"
  #0 [89c39ac8] __delay at 803b5be4
  #1 [89c39ac8] do_raw_spin_lock at 8008fdcc
  #2 [89c39af8] try_to_wake_up at 8006e47c
  #3 [89c39b38] pollwake at 8018eab0
  #4 [89c39b68] __wake_up_common at 800879f4
  #5 [89c39b98] __wake_up at 800880e4
  #6 [89c39bc8] perf_event_wakeup at 8012109c
  #7 [89c39be8] perf_pending_event at 80121184
  #8 [89c39c08] irq_work_run_list at 801151f0
  #9 [89c39c38] irq_work_run at 80115274
 #10 [89c39c50] mipsxx_pmu_handle_shared_irq at 8002cc7c

 PID: 1481   TASK: 8eaac6a8  CPU: 3   COMMAND: "process"
  #0 [8de7f900] do_raw_write_lock at 800900e0
  #1 [8de7f918] perf_event_context_sched_in at 80122310
  #2 [8de7f938] __perf_event_task_sched_in at 80122608
  #3 [8de7f958] finish_task_switch at 8006b8a4
  #4 [8de7f998] __schedule at 805e4dc4
  #5 [8de7f9f8] schedule at 805e5558
  #6 [8de7fa10] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock at 805e9984
  #7 [8de7fa70] poll_schedule_timeout at 8018e8f8
  #8 [8de7fa88] do_select at 8018f338
  #9 [8de7fd88] core_sys_select at 8018f5cc
 #10 [8de7fee0] sys_select at 8018f854
 #11 [8de7ff28] syscall_common at 80028fc8

The lock seems to be there to protect the hardware counters so there is
no need to hold it across irq_work_run().

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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