powerpc: Fix deadlock in icswx code
The icswx code introduced an A-B B-A deadlock: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&anon_vma->mutex); lock(&mm->mmap_sem); lock(&anon_vma->mutex); lock(&mm->mmap_sem); Instead of using the mmap_sem to keep mm_users constant, take the page table spinlock. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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