On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:33:12PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
wrote:
> That ran 9 total hours with no problem.
>
> Rather than revert in the bisect trees, I added just this single additional
> patch to the no-rebase tree, and the problem appeared:
Can you try the below totally untested patch instead? It looks like
put_reqs_available() is not irq-safe.
-ben
--
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 955947e..4b97180 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -830,16 +830,20 @@ void exit_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
static void put_reqs_available(struct kioctx *ctx, unsigned nr)
{
struct kioctx_cpu *kcpu;
+ unsigned long flags;
preempt_disable();
kcpu = this_cpu_ptr(ctx->cpu);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
kcpu->reqs_available += nr;
+
while (kcpu->reqs_available >= ctx->req_batch * 2) {
kcpu->reqs_available -= ctx->req_batch;
atomic_add(ctx->req_batch, &ctx->reqs_available);
}
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
preempt_enable();
}
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