From: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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[commit 45516ddc16abc923104d78bb3eb772ac0a09e33e in v3.0.44 - paulg ]
[Fixed upstream by commits 2955b47d2c1983998a8c5915cb96884e67f7cb53 and
a4683487f90bfe3049686fc5c566bdc1ad03ace6 from Dan Williams, but they are much
more intrusive than this tiny fix, according to Andrew - gregkh]
This patch tries to fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full(), which
could be seen when preemption is disabled on a single cpu machine.
void async_synchronize_full(void)
{
do {
async_synchronize_cookie(next_cookie);
} while (!list_empty(&async_running) || !
list_empty(&async_pending));
}
async_synchronize_cookie() calls async_synchronize_cookie_domain() with
&async_running as the default domain to synchronize.
However, there might be some works in the async_pending list from other
domains. On a single cpu system, without preemption, there is no chance
for the other works to finish, so async_synchronize_full() enters a dead
loop.
It seems async_synchronize_full() wants to synchronize all entries in
all running lists(domains), so maybe we could just check the entry_count
to know whether all works are finished.
Currently, async_synchronize_cookie_domain() expects a non-NULL running
list ( if NULL, there would be NULL pointer dereference ), so maybe a
NULL pointer could be used as an indication for the functions to
synchronize all works in all domains.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/async.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
index 15319d6c18fe..b640ffc3f5a1 100644
--- a/kernel/async.c
+++ b/kernel/async.c
@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ static async_cookie_t __lowest_in_progress(struct list_head *running)
{
struct async_entry *entry;
+ if (!running) { /* just check the entry count */
+ if (atomic_read(&entry_count))
+ return 0; /* smaller than any cookie */
+ else
+ return next_cookie;
+ }
+
if (!list_empty(running)) {
entry = list_first_entry(running,
struct async_entry, list);
@@ -249,9 +256,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule_domain);
*/
void async_synchronize_full(void)
{
- do {
- async_synchronize_cookie(next_cookie);
- } while (!list_empty(&async_running) || !list_empty(&async_pending));
+ async_synchronize_cookie_domain(next_cookie, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full);
@@ -271,7 +276,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full_domain);
/**
* async_synchronize_cookie_domain - synchronize asynchronous function calls within a certain domain with cookie checkpointing
* @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
- * @running: running list to synchronize on
+ * @running: running list to synchronize on, NULL indicates all lists
*
* This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the
* synchronization domain specified by the running list @list submitted
--
1.8.5.2
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