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authorMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2019-03-28 11:16:26 +0100
committerMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2019-03-28 11:16:26 +0100
commit6f01eb5bf8e8110ab5f3a8e7b0f3abf19a205e4b (patch)
tree4b3147335ed97e4b487fd84bcb7a959a38d9656e /fs/drop_caches.c
parent8f234193b8cc35c44614e4a4b05f2d920ff562e4 (diff)
parent6b50202a4d53bf527c640467bcff68b50a5e38a2 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.177' into toradex_vf_4.4-nextColibri-VF_LXDE-Image_2.8b6.183-20190331
This is the 4.4.177 stable release
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/drop_caches.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/drop_caches.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index d72d52b90433..280460fef066 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -20,8 +20,13 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ /*
+ * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip
+ * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case
+ * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups.
+ */
if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
- (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
+ (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
continue;
}
@@ -29,6 +34,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+ cond_resched();
invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
iput(toput_inode);
toput_inode = inode;