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| author | Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com> | 2020-02-15 03:02:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-28 16:38:56 +0100 |
| commit | 38884609b8b5282397f5f354ad2b098a13f57145 (patch) | |
| tree | d263291a91d42a39b34b0d758d6378bbd50f0dc7 | |
| parent | 9b6e90918bc005a258c7f4b4803059de6ca7fba2 (diff) | |
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ext4: add cond_resched() to __ext4_find_entry()
commit 9424ef56e13a1f14c57ea161eed3ecfdc7b2770e upstream.
We tested a soft lockup problem in linux 4.19 which could also
be found in linux 5.x.
When dir inode takes up a large number of blocks, and if the
directory is growing when we are searching, it's possible the
restart branch could be called many times, and the do while loop
could hold cpu a long time.
Here is the call trace in linux 4.19.
[ 473.756186] Call trace:
[ 473.756196] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x198
[ 473.756199] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[ 473.756205] dump_stack+0xa4/0xcc
[ 473.756210] watchdog_timer_fn+0x300/0x3e8
[ 473.756215] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x114/0x358
[ 473.756217] hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x2d8
[ 473.756222] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x58
[ 473.756226] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x248
[ 473.756231] generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
[ 473.756234] __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
[ 473.756236] gic_handle_irq+0x6c/0x150
[ 473.756238] el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
[ 473.756286] ext4_es_lookup_extent+0xdc/0x258 [ext4]
[ 473.756310] ext4_map_blocks+0x64/0x5c0 [ext4]
[ 473.756333] ext4_getblk+0x6c/0x1d0 [ext4]
[ 473.756356] ext4_bread_batch+0x7c/0x1f8 [ext4]
[ 473.756379] ext4_find_entry+0x124/0x3f8 [ext4]
[ 473.756402] ext4_lookup+0x8c/0x258 [ext4]
[ 473.756407] __lookup_hash+0x8c/0xe8
[ 473.756411] filename_create+0xa0/0x170
[ 473.756413] do_mkdirat+0x6c/0x140
[ 473.756415] __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x28/0x38
[ 473.756419] el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
[ 473.756421] el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
[ 473.756423] el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[ 485.755156] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [tmp:5149]
Add cond_resched() to avoid soft lockup and to provide a better
system responding.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200215080206.13293-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 4608d0d3b7f9..a8f2e3549bb9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1431,6 +1431,7 @@ restart: /* * We deal with the read-ahead logic here. */ + cond_resched(); if (ra_ptr >= ra_max) { /* Refill the readahead buffer */ ra_ptr = 0; |