Two patches from 3.11 which are missing in 3.10.y
I've just seen livelock in 3.10.69+ where all cpus are stuck in fib6_run_gc()
<4>[2919865.977745] Call Trace:
<4>[2919865.977748] <IRQ>
<4>[2919865.977754] [<ffffffff8163b87e>] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x1e/0x30
<4>[2919865.977759] [<ffffffff815e4018>] fib6_run_gc+0x28/0x100
<4>[2919865.977762] [<ffffffff815dc64b>] ip6_dst_gc+0xcb/0x110
<4>[2919865.977767] [<ffffffff8153ead3>] dst_alloc+0x163/0x180
<4>[2919865.977770] [<ffffffff815ddce4>] ip6_rt_copy+0x44/0x350
<4>[2919865.977773] [<ffffffff815debc7>] ip6_pol_route.isra.46+0x347/0x460
<4>[2919865.977776] [<ffffffff815ded3a>] ip6_pol_route_output+0x2a/0x30
<4>[2919865.977781] [<ffffffff81605061>] fib6_rule_action+0xd1/0x200
<4>[2919865.977783] [<ffffffff815ded10>] ? ip6_pol_route_input+0x30/0x30
<4>[2919865.977788] [<ffffffff81556b9d>] ? pfifo_fast_enqueue+0x8d/0xa0
<4>[2919865.977791] [<ffffffff815513e5>] fib_rules_lookup+0xd5/0x150
<4>[2919865.977795] [<ffffffff81605344>] fib6_rule_lookup+0x44/0x80
<4>[2919865.977797] [<ffffffff815ded10>] ? ip6_pol_route_input+0x30/0x30
<4>[2919865.977800] [<ffffffff815dce93>] ip6_route_output+0x73/0xb0
<4>[2919865.977804] [<ffffffff815cf4fb>] ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0xdb/0xf0
<4>[2919865.977807] [<ffffffff815cf6ed>] ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x3d/0xa0
<4>[2919865.977811] [<ffffffff815fe4b0>] inet6_csk_route_socket+0x160/0x200
<4>[2919865.977814] [<ffffffff815fe622>] inet6_csk_xmit+0x42/0xd0
<4>[2919865.977819] [<ffffffff81588e6b>] tcp_transmit_skb+0x42b/0x8a0
<4>[2919865.977823] [<ffffffff81589376>] tcp_xmit_probe_skb+0x96/0xb0
<4>[2919865.977826] [<ffffffff8158bce9>] tcp_write_wakeup+0x59/0x180
<4>[2919865.977830] [<ffffffff8158c298>] tcp_keepalive_timer+0x178/0x260
<4>[2919865.977833] [<ffffffff8158cee6>] ? tcp_write_timer+0x46/0x80
<4>[2919865.977836] [<ffffffff8158c120>] ? tcp_out_of_resources+0xc0/0xc0
<4>[2919865.977840] [<ffffffff81064576>] call_timer_fn+0x46/0x160
<4>[2919865.977842] [<ffffffff8106517c>] ? cascade+0x7c/0xa0
<4>[2919865.977845] [<ffffffff81065e0d>] run_timer_softirq+0x25d/0x290
<4>[2919865.977849] [<ffffffff813104a4>] ? timerqueue_add+0x64/0xb0
<4>[2919865.977852] [<ffffffff8158c120>] ? tcp_out_of_resources+0xc0/0xc0
<4>[2919865.977858] [<ffffffff8109ba74>] ? ktime_get+0x54/0xe0
<4>[2919865.977861] [<ffffffff8105df58>] __do_softirq+0xd8/0x270
<4>[2919865.977865] [<ffffffff810a3b04>] ? tick_program_event+0x24/0x30
<4>[2919865.977870] [<ffffffff8107f385>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x185/0x270
<4>[2919865.977874] [<ffffffff8164581c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
<4>[2919865.977878] [<ffffffff810154d5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
<4>[2919865.977881] [<ffffffff8105e24e>] irq_exit+0x8e/0xb0
<4>[2919865.977884] [<ffffffff8164619e>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x99
<4>[2919865.977887] [<ffffffff8164505d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
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Michal Kubeček (2):
ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention
ipv6: update ip6_rt_last_gc every time GC is run
include/net/ip6_fib.h | 2 +-
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv6/route.c | 8 +++-----
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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Konstantin
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