Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier

Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	drivers/block/loop.c
	mm/swapfile.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
index d073b64ae87e..724ba3bce72c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
@@ -885,8 +885,23 @@ do_alignment(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	if (ai_usermode & UM_SIGNAL)
 		force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
-	else
-		set_cr(cr_no_alignment);
+	else {
+		/*
+		 * We're about to disable the alignment trap and return to
+		 * user space.  But if an interrupt occurs before actually
+		 * reaching user space, then the IRQ vector entry code will
+		 * notice that we were still in kernel space and therefore
+		 * the alignment trap won't be re-enabled in that case as it
+		 * is presumed to be always on from kernel space.
+		 * Let's prevent that race by disabling interrupts here (they
+		 * are disabled on the way back to user space anyway in
+		 * entry-common.S) and disable the alignment trap only if
+		 * there is no work pending for this thread.
+		 */
+		raw_local_irq_disable();
+		if (!(current_thread_info()->flags & _TIF_WORK_MASK))
+			set_cr(cr_no_alignment);
+	}
 
 	return 0;
 }