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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-06-29 15:15:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-29 08:46:30 -0700 |
| commit | fd782a4a99d2d3e818b9465c427b10f7f027d7da (patch) | |
| tree | 271bdff83dc68c7196c7319c18bd6292b5d177c5 /drivers | |
| parent | 541cecac534ea0df95fbc76b0a3091e91b101895 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Fix get_request nastiness
get_request is now expected to be holding on to queue_lock, with interrupts
disabled, when it returns NULL; but one path forgot that, causing all kinds
of nastiness under swap load - badness backtraces, strange failures, BUGs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c index 1197462bb6b..692a5fced76 100644 --- a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c @@ -1917,10 +1917,9 @@ get_rq: * limit of requests, otherwise we could have thousands of requests * allocated with any setting of ->nr_requests */ - if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) { - spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); + if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) goto out; - } + rl->count[rw]++; rl->starved[rw] = 0; if (rl->count[rw] >= queue_congestion_on_threshold(q)) |