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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-02-08 15:00:17 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-02-08 15:00:17 -0800
commita655fe9f194842693258f43b5382855db1c2f654 (patch)
treea6e523c42378f43881c421530941dcbb529461ab /fs/drop_caches.c
parent7499a288bf1a4a49be9d72beb0a5c7b9aa6ffec9 (diff)
parent27b4ad621e887ce8e5eb508a0103f13d30f6b38a (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
An ipvlan bug fix in 'net' conflicted with the abstraction away of the IPV6 specific support in 'net-next'. Similarly, a bug fix for mlx5 in 'net' conflicted with the flow action conversion in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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 82377017130f..d31b6c72b476 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ 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;
}
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ 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;