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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-03-07 21:05:19 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2012-05-22 16:23:57 -0400
commitd7f620fa869c91ba4f124000b5a709929b22842a (patch)
tree32bb1c14a44cfe036df43b6b47d3b82916fa5cb9
parent8d03176743996c20f0705b015f42949b7eb0648c (diff)
fs: namespace: Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax()
Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was preempted. Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system make progress. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index c56378185807..3270cdedfecb 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include "pnode.h"
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ int mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *mnt)
*/
while (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_WRITE_HOLD) {
preempt_enable();
- cpu_relax();
+ cpu_chill();
preempt_disable();
}
/*