3.16.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com
commit 1e1c50a929bc9e49bc3f9935b92450d9e69f8158 upstream.
do_chunk_alloc implements a loop checking whether there is a pending chunk allocation and if so causes the caller do loop. Generally this loop is executed only once, however testing with btrfs/072 on a single core vm machines uncovered an extreme case where the system could loop indefinitely. This is due to a missing cond_resched when loop which doesn't give a chance to the previous chunk allocator finish its job.
The fix is to simply add the missing cond_resched.
Fixes: 6d74119f1a3e ("Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc") Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov nborisov@suse.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c @@ -3969,6 +3969,7 @@ again: if (wait_for_alloc) { mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex); wait_for_alloc = 0; + cond_resched(); goto again; }