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authorWei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com>2016-07-06 11:32:20 +0800
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-07-24 16:37:16 -0400
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fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()
We triggered soft-lockup under stress test which open/access/write/close one file concurrently on more than five different CPUs: WARN: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [who:30631] ... [<ffffffc0003986f8>] dput+0x100/0x298 [<ffffffc00038c2dc>] terminate_walk+0x4c/0x60 [<ffffffc00038f56c>] path_lookupat+0x5cc/0x7a8 [<ffffffc00038f780>] filename_lookup+0x38/0xf0 [<ffffffc000391180>] user_path_at_empty+0x78/0xd0 [<ffffffc0003911f4>] user_path_at+0x1c/0x28 [<ffffffc00037d4fc>] SyS_faccessat+0xb4/0x230 ->d_lock trylock may failed many times because of concurrently operations, and dput() may execute a long time. Fix this by replacing cpu_relax() with cond_resched(). dput() used to be sleepable, so make it sleepable again should be safe. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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