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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-09-19 11:49:54 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2008-09-19 11:49:54 +1000
commit9744197c3d7b329590c2be33ad7b17409bd798fe (patch)
treeb82478694d768a54bad23661e31830cc48e95e0f /drivers
parent45e9c0de2e86485f8b6633fd64ab19cfbff167f6 (diff)
downloadlinux-9744197c3d7b329590c2be33ad7b17409bd798fe.tar.bz2
md: Don't wait UNINTERRUPTIBLE for other resync to finish
When two md arrays share some block device (e.g each uses different partitions on the one device), a resync of one array will wait for the resync on the other to finish. This can be a long time and as it currently waits TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, the softlockup code notices and complains. So use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE instead and make sure to flush signals before calling schedule. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 4790c83d78d0..deeac4b44173 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5761,7 +5761,11 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
* time 'round when curr_resync == 2
*/
continue;
- prepare_to_wait(&resync_wait, &wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+ /* We need to wait 'interruptible' so as not to
+ * contribute to the load average, and not to
+ * be caught by 'softlockup'
+ */
+ prepare_to_wait(&resync_wait, &wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (!kthread_should_stop() &&
mddev2->curr_resync >= mddev->curr_resync) {
printk(KERN_INFO "md: delaying %s of %s"
@@ -5769,6 +5773,8 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
" share one or more physical units)\n",
desc, mdname(mddev), mdname(mddev2));
mddev_put(mddev2);
+ if (signal_pending(current))
+ flush_signals(current);
schedule();
finish_wait(&resync_wait, &wq);
goto try_again;