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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes v1->v2: - add might_sleep() to annotate that dput() can sleep Changes v2->v3: - put cond_resched() in dput() fs/dcache.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index ad4a542..77f6687 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -589,7 +589,6 @@ static struct dentry *dentry_kill(struct dentry *dentry) failed: spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); - cpu_relax(); return dentry; /* try again with same dentry */ } @@ -763,6 +762,8 @@ void dput(struct dentry *dentry) return; repeat: + might_sleep(); + rcu_read_lock(); if (likely(fast_dput(dentry))) { rcu_read_unlock(); @@ -796,8 +797,10 @@ repeat: kill_it: dentry = dentry_kill(dentry); - if (dentry) + if (dentry) { + cond_resched(); goto repeat; + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dput); -- 1.7.1 -- 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