[Fixed upstream by commits 2955b47d2c and
a4683487f9 from Dan Williams, but they are much
more intrusive than this tiny fix, according to Andrew - gregkh]
This patch tries to fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full(), which
could be seen when preemption is disabled on a single cpu machine.
void async_synchronize_full(void)
{
do {
async_synchronize_cookie(next_cookie);
} while (!list_empty(&async_running) || !
list_empty(&async_pending));
}
async_synchronize_cookie() calls async_synchronize_cookie_domain() with
&async_running as the default domain to synchronize.
However, there might be some works in the async_pending list from other
domains. On a single cpu system, without preemption, there is no chance
for the other works to finish, so async_synchronize_full() enters a dead
loop.
It seems async_synchronize_full() wants to synchronize all entries in
all running lists(domains), so maybe we could just check the entry_count
to know whether all works are finished.
Currently, async_synchronize_cookie_domain() expects a non-NULL running
list ( if NULL, there would be NULL pointer dereference ), so maybe a
NULL pointer could be used as an indication for the functions to
synchronize all works in all domains.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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