3.2.53-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Fan Du <fan...@windriver.com>

commit 74e3d1e17b2e11d175970b85acd44f5927000ba2 upstream.

Two rt tasks bind to one CPU core.

The higher priority rt task A preempts a lower priority rt task B which
has already taken the write seq lock, and then the higher priority rt
task A try to acquire read seq lock, it's doomed to lockup.

rt task A with lower priority: call write
i_size_write                                        rt task B with higher 
priority: call sync, and preempt task A
  write_seqcount_begin(&inode->i_size_seqcount);    i_size_read
  inode->i_size = i_size;                             read_seqcount_begin <-- 
lockup here...

So disable preempt when acquiring every i_size_seqcount *write* lock will
cure the problem.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan...@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -911,9 +911,11 @@ static inline loff_t i_size_read(const s
 static inline void i_size_write(struct inode *inode, loff_t i_size)
 {
 #if BITS_PER_LONG==32 && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+       preempt_disable();
        write_seqcount_begin(&inode->i_size_seqcount);
        inode->i_size = i_size;
        write_seqcount_end(&inode->i_size_seqcount);
+       preempt_enable();
 #elif BITS_PER_LONG==32 && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
        preempt_disable();
        inode->i_size = i_size;

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