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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-03-07 21:05:19 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@rostedt.homelinux.com>2012-10-26 14:42:48 -0400
commit1db0937a424760f8d97b44e558527bd09b844a41 (patch)
tree320ca8a74dea0a487b5a7c3e671857a59b593cd8
parenta35b8304f8ec487262f1571f4c7ab46719640faa (diff)
fs: namespace: Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax()
Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was preempted. Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system make progress. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 72c9f247f020..84852cd61ed5 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include "pnode.h"
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ int mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *mnt)
*/
while (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_WRITE_HOLD) {
preempt_enable();
- cpu_relax();
+ cpu_chill();
preempt_disable();
}
/*