Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 7 authors, 2018-06-18

Re: [PATCH] bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-06-13 16:25:15
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:21 AM Tetsuo Handa
[off-list ref] wrote:
Since multiple addresses share bit_wait_table[256], isn't it possible that
cgwb_start_shutdown() prematurely returns false due to wake_up_bit() by
hash-conflicting addresses (i.e. not limited to clear_and_wake_up_bit() from
wb_shutdown())? I think that we cannot be sure without confirming that
test_bit(WB_shutting_down, &wb->state) == false after returning from schedule().
Right.

That's _always_ true, btw. Something else entirely could have woken
you up. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE does not mean "nothing else wakes me", it
just means "_signals_ don't wake me".

So every single sleep always needs to be in a loop. Always.

              Linus
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