[PATCH 4.19 64/97] ext4: add cond_resched() to __ext4_find_entry()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-27T14:06:46Z

From: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com>

commit 9424ef56e13a1f14c57ea161eed3ecfdc7b2770e upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1431,6 +1431,7 @@ restart:
/*
* We deal with the read-ahead logic here.
*/
+ cond_resched();
if (ra_ptr >= ra_max) {
/* Refill the readahead buffer */
ra_ptr = 0;