Thread (111 messages) 111 messages, 4 authors, 2016-06-06

[added to the 3.18 stable tree] aacraid: Relinquish CPU during timeout wait

From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-03 21:47:10
Subsystem: aacraid scsi raid driver, scsi subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Adaptec OEM Raid Solutions, "James E.J. Bottomley", "Martin K. Petersen", Linus Torvalds

From: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <redacted>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

[ Upstream commit 07beca2be24cc710461c0b131832524c9ee08910 ]

aac_fib_send has a special function case for initial commands during
driver initialization using wait < 0(pseudo sync mode). In this case,
the command does not sleep but rather spins checking for timeout.This
loop is calls cpu_relax() in an attempt to allow other processes/threads
to use the CPU, but this function does not relinquish the CPU and so the
command will hog the processor. This was observed in a KDUMP
"crashkernel" and that prevented the "command thread" (which is
responsible for completing the command from being timed out) from
starting because it could not get the CPU.

Fixed by replacing "cpu_relax()" call with "schedule()"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
index 6b32ddc..06f73d2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c
@@ -590,10 +590,10 @@ int aac_fib_send(u16 command, struct fib *fibptr, unsigned long size,
 					}
 					return -EFAULT;
 				}
-				/* We used to udelay() here but that absorbed
-				 * a CPU when a timeout occured. Not very
-				 * useful. */
-				cpu_relax();
+				/*
+				 * Allow other processes / CPUS to use core
+				 */
+				schedule();
 			}
 		} else if (down_interruptible(&fibptr->event_wait)) {
 			/* Do nothing ... satisfy
-- 
2.5.0
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