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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/softirq.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c index b5197dcb0da..3d6833f125d 100644 --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -195,8 +195,12 @@ void local_bh_enable_ip(unsigned long ip) EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); /* - * We restart softirq processing for at most 2 ms, - * and if need_resched() is not set. + * We restart softirq processing for at most MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART times, + * but break the loop if need_resched() is set or after 2 ms. + * The MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME provides a nice upper bound in most cases, but in + * certain cases, such as stop_machine(), jiffies may cease to + * increment and so we need the MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART limit as + * well to make sure we eventually return from this method. * * These limits have been established via experimentation. * The two things to balance is latency against fairness - @@ -204,6 +208,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(local_bh_enable_ip); * should not be able to lock up the box. */ #define MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME msecs_to_jiffies(2) +#define MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART 10 asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) { @@ -212,6 +217,7 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void) unsigned long end = jiffies + MAX_SOFTIRQ_TIME; int cpu; unsigned long old_flags = current->flags; + int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART; /* * Mask out PF_MEMALLOC s current task context is borrowed for the @@ -265,7 +271,8 @@ restart: pending = local_softirq_pending(); if (pending) { - if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched()) + if (time_before(jiffies, end) && !need_resched() && + --max_restart) goto restart; wakeup_softirqd(); |