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

[Al Viro]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 04:11:49AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 07:39:54PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > OK, the warnings about averting your eyes very much apply; the thing below
> > definitely needs more massage before it becomes acceptable (and no, it's
> > not a single commit; I'm not that insane), but it changes behaviour in the
> > way described above.  Could you check if the livelock persists with it?
> > No trace-generating code in there, so the logs should be compact enough...
> 
> Here's an updated patch, hopefully slightly less vomit-inducing.  Should
> give the same behaviour as the previous one...  Again, it's a cumulative
> diff - I'm still massaging the splitup here.

BTW, it still leaves the "proceed to parent" case in shrink_dentry_list();
in theory, it's also vulnerable to the same livelock.  Can be dealt pretty
much the same way; I'd rather leave that one for right after -final, though,
if the already posted variant turns out to be sufficient...
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