This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: Fix a dumb CPU spinning bug in writeback
to the 3.10-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-fix-a-dumb-cpu-spinning-bug-in-writeback.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 79e3dab90d9f826ceca67c7890e048ac9169de49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:17:33 -0700
Subject: bcache: Fix a dumb CPU spinning bug in writeback
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 79e3dab90d9f826ceca67c7890e048ac9169de49 upstream.
schedule_timeout() != schedule_timeout_uninterruptible()
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c
@@ -327,8 +327,7 @@ static void read_dirty(struct closure *c
if (delay > 0 &&
(KEY_START(&w->key) != dc->last_read ||
jiffies_to_msecs(delay) > 50))
- while (delay)
- delay = schedule_timeout(delay);
+ delay = schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(delay);
dc->last_read = KEY_OFFSET(&w->key);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-flush-fua-performance-bug.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-when-no-journal-entries-are-found.patch
queue-3.10/block-fix-bio_copy_data.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-for-handling-overlapping-extents-when-reading-in-a-btree-node.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-cpu-spinning-bug-in-writeback.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-strip-endline-when-writing-the-label-through-sysfs.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-flushes-in-writeback-mode.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-shrinker-deadlock.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-writeback-performance-regression.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-journal-discard-bug.patch
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