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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [ 09/17] vfs: Revert spurious fix to spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:25:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130415022353.318572333@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130415022352.616689034@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>

commit 5b55d708335a9e3e4f61f2dadf7511502205ccd1 upstream.

Revert commit 62a3ddef6181 ("vfs: fix spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb").

This commit doesn't look right: since we are looking at the tail of the
list (sb->s_inode_lru.prev) if we want to skip an inode, we should put
it back at the head of the list instead of the tail, otherwise we will
keep spinning on it.

Discovered when investigating why prune_icache_sb came top in perf
reports of a swapping load.

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block
 		 * inode to the back of the list so we don't spin on it.
 		 */
 		if (!spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock)) {
-			list_move_tail(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru);
+			list_move(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru);
 			continue;
 		}
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  2:25 [ 00/17] 3.4.41-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 01/17] ALSA: usb-audio: fix endianness bug in snd_nativeinstruments_* Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 02/17] ASoC: wm8903: Fix the bypass to HP/LINEOUT when no DAC or ADC is running Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 03/17] tracing: Fix double free when function profile init failed Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 04/17] PM / reboot: call syscore_shutdown() after disable_nonboot_cpus() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 05/17] drm/i915: Use the correct size of the GTT for placing the per-process entries Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 06/17] SCSI: libsas: fix handling vacant phy in sas_set_ex_phy() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 07/17] cifs: Allow passwords which begin with a delimitor Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 08/17] target: Fix incorrect fallthrough of ALUA Standby/Offline/Transition CDBs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 10/17] kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 11/17] udl: handle EDID failure properly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 12/17] sched_clock: Prevent 64bit inatomicity on 32bit systems Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 13/17] x86, mm, paravirt: Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU updates Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 14/17] x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 15/17] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 16/17] kobject: fix kset_find_obj() race with concurrent last kobject_put() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15  2:25 ` [ 17/17] r8169: fix auto speed down issue Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-15 14:04 ` [ 00/17] 3.4.41-stable review Shuah Khan

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