Re: fs/dcache.c - BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 22s! [systemd-udevd:1667]

[Al Viro]

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:02:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Anyway, one reason I looked at this is that most of the threads in
> Mika's NMI watchdog traces were stuck on _raw_spin_lock() in the whole
> d_walk() thing, and I had a *really* hard time convincing myself that
> this was all safe without the RCU lock. I'm wondering if Mika perhaps
> has CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU set, which means that spinlocks (or the
> rename_lock sequence lock) do not end up being RCU-safe points.

d_walk() covers its arse with ->d_lock (and it wants the starting point
to be pinned, obviously).  So AFAICS RCU is not a problem.
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