ext4: add cond_resched() to __ext4_find_entry()
authorShijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com>
Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:02:06 +0000 (03:02 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 04:53:52 +0000 (23:53 -0500)
commit9424ef56e13a1f14c57ea161eed3ecfdc7b2770e
tree97d0b9e3336559fce90677cf6fdf1057a206ff23
parent35df4299a6487f323b0aca120ea3f485dfee2ae3
ext4: add cond_resched() to __ext4_find_entry()

We tested a soft lockup problem in linux 4.19 which could also
be found in linux 5.x.

When dir inode takes up a large number of blocks, and if the
directory is growing when we are searching, it's possible the
restart branch could be called many times, and the do while loop
could hold cpu a long time.

Here is the call trace in linux 4.19.

[  473.756186] Call trace:
[  473.756196]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x198
[  473.756199]  show_stack+0x24/0x30
[  473.756205]  dump_stack+0xa4/0xcc
[  473.756210]  watchdog_timer_fn+0x300/0x3e8
[  473.756215]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x114/0x358
[  473.756217]  hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x2d8
[  473.756222]  arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x58
[  473.756226]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x248
[  473.756231]  generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
[  473.756234]  __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
[  473.756236]  gic_handle_irq+0x6c/0x150
[  473.756238]  el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
[  473.756286]  ext4_es_lookup_extent+0xdc/0x258 [ext4]
[  473.756310]  ext4_map_blocks+0x64/0x5c0 [ext4]
[  473.756333]  ext4_getblk+0x6c/0x1d0 [ext4]
[  473.756356]  ext4_bread_batch+0x7c/0x1f8 [ext4]
[  473.756379]  ext4_find_entry+0x124/0x3f8 [ext4]
[  473.756402]  ext4_lookup+0x8c/0x258 [ext4]
[  473.756407]  __lookup_hash+0x8c/0xe8
[  473.756411]  filename_create+0xa0/0x170
[  473.756413]  do_mkdirat+0x6c/0x140
[  473.756415]  __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x28/0x38
[  473.756419]  el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
[  473.756421]  el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
[  473.756423]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[  485.755156] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [tmp:5149]

Add cond_resched() to avoid soft lockup and to provide a better
system responding.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200215080206.13293-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
fs/ext4/namei.c