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

[Sedat Dilek]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:31:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Linus, how would you prefer it to be handled?
>>
>> I'll just have to do an rc8. I really hoped to avoid it, because we're
>> going on our family vacation when school is out in two weeks, and it
>> causes problems for the merge window, but it's not like there is much
>> choice - I can't do a 3.15 release with a known regression like that.
>
> Sorry about that... ;-/
>
>> So just send me the pull request, and I'll pull it. I'll probably do
>> the "let's increase the x86-64 stack size to 16kB" too, to close
>> _that_ issue as well.
>
> OK, here it is:
>
> Fixes for livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() introduced by fixes to shrink
> list corruption; the root cause was that trylock of parent's ->d_lock could
> be disrupted by d_walk() happening on other CPUs, resulting in
> shrink_dentry_list() making no progress *and* the same d_walk() being called
> again and again for as long as shrink_dentry_list() doesn't get past that
> mess.  Solution is to have shrink_dentry_list() treat that trylock failure not
> as "try to do the same thing again", but "lock them in the right order".
> Please, pull from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus-2
>
> Shortlog:
> Al Viro (8):
>       lift the "already marked killed" case into shrink_dentry_list()
>       split dentry_kill()
>       expand dentry_kill(dentry, 0) in shrink_dentry_list()
>       shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's ->d_lock earlier
>       dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock
>       dentry_kill() doesn't need the second argument now
>       d_prune_alias(): just lock the parent and call __dentry_kill()
>       dcache.c: call ->d_prune() regardless of d_unhashed()
>
> Diffstat:
>  fs/dcache.c |  176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 115 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
>

Did you push all?

$ git log --oneline v3.15-rc7..
8cbf74d dentry_kill() doesn't need the second argument now
b2b8019 dealing with the rest of shrink_dentry_list() livelock
046b961 shrink_dentry_list(): take parent's ->d_lock earlier
ff2fde9 expand dentry_kill(dentry, 0) in shrink_dentry_list()
e55fd01 split dentry_kill()
64fd72e lift the "already marked killed" case into shrink_dentry_list()
b6dd6f4 vfs: fix vmplice_to_user()

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