This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: Add a cond_resched() call to gc to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: bcache-add-a-cond_resched-call-to-gc.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c5f1e5adf956e3ba82d204c7c141a75da9fa449a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:18:33 -0800 Subject: bcache: Add a cond_resched() call to gc From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c5f1e5adf956e3ba82d204c7c141a75da9fa449a upstream. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c @@ -1641,6 +1641,7 @@ static void bch_btree_gc(struct cache_se do { ret = btree_root(gc_root, c, &op, &writes, &stats); closure_sync(&writes); + cond_resched(); if (ret && ret != -EAGAIN) pr_warn("gc failed!"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/bcache-clear-bcache_dev_unlink_done-flag-when-attaching-a-backing-device.patch queue-3.14/bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.patch queue-3.14/bcache-fix-a-livelock-when-we-cause-a-huge-number-of-cache-misses.patch queue-3.14/bcache-unregister-reboot-notifier-if-bcache-fails-to-unregister-device.patch queue-3.14/bcache-add-a-cond_resched-call-to-gc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html