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(). Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index d5ecc6e..7046c04 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static struct dentry *dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry) failed: spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); - cpu_relax(); + cond_resched(); return dentry; /* try again with same dentry */ } -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
