We triggered soft-lockup under stress test on 2.6.34 kernel.

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 60009ms! [lockf2.test:14488]
...
[<bf09a4d4>] (jffs2_do_reserve_space+0x420/0x440 [jffs2])
[<bf09a528>] (jffs2_reserve_space_gc+0x34/0x78 [jffs2])
[<bf0a1350>] (jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode.isra.3+0x264/0x478 [jffs2])
[<bf0a2078>] (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x9c0/0xe4c [jffs2])
[<bf09a670>] (jffs2_reserve_space+0x104/0x2a8 [jffs2])
[<bf09dc48>] (jffs2_write_inode_range+0x5c/0x4d4 [jffs2])
[<bf097d8c>] (jffs2_write_end+0x198/0x2c0 [jffs2])
[<c00e00a4>] (generic_file_buffered_write+0x158/0x200)
[<c00e14f4>] (__generic_file_aio_write+0x3a4/0x414)
[<c00e15c0>] (generic_file_aio_write+0x5c/0xbc)
[<c012334c>] (do_sync_write+0x98/0xd4)
[<c0123a84>] (vfs_write+0xa8/0x150)
[<c0123d74>] (sys_write+0x3c/0xc0)]

Fix this by adding a cond_resched() in the while loop.

Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com>
---
 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c b/fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c
index 0331072..fb30161 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c
@@ -216,15 +216,20 @@ int jffs2_reserve_space_gc(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, 
uint32_t minsize,
 
        jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): Requested 0x%x bytes\n", __func__, minsize);
 
-       spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
-       while(ret == -EAGAIN) {
+       while (true) {
+               spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
                ret = jffs2_do_reserve_space(c, minsize, len, sumsize);
                if (ret) {
                        jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): looping, ret is %d\n",
                                  __func__, ret);
                }
+               spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
+
+               if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+                       cond_resched();
+               else
+                       break;
        }
-       spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
        if (!ret)
                ret = jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs(c, c->nextblock, 1);
 
-- 
1.8.0.2

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