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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:23:50 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.8-rt23
Dear RT Folks,
I'm pleased to announce the 3.0.8-rt23 release.
Changes from 3.0.8-rt22 to 3.0.8-rt23
* Cherrypick an ext4 fix which was not sent to stable
* Add missing idle task comm update (Carsten)
Delta patch against 3.0.8-rt22
https://tglx.de/~tglx/rt/incr/patch-3.0.8-rt22-rt23.patch.gz
also appended below.
Patch against 3.0.8 can be found here:
https://tglx.de/~tglx/rt/patch-3.0.8-rt23.patch.gz
The split quilt queue is available at:
https://tglx.de/~tglx/rt/patches-3.0.8-rt23.tar.gz
Enjoy,
tglx
--------------->
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -190,9 +190,6 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inod
trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode);
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
- ext4_flush_completed_IO(inode);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
ext4_ioend_wait(inode);
if (inode->i_nlink) {
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/init_task.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
# define INIT_TIMER_LIST
#endif
+#define INIT_TASK_COMM "swapper"
+
/*
* INIT_TASK is used to set up the first task table, touch at
* your own risk!. Base=0, limit=0x1fffff (=2MB)
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
.group_leader = &tsk, \
RCU_INIT_POINTER(.real_cred, &init_cred), \
RCU_INIT_POINTER(.cred, &init_cred), \
- .comm = "swapper", \
+ .comm = INIT_TASK_COMM, \
.thread = INIT_THREAD, \
.fs = &init_fs, \
.files = &init_files, \
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/init_task.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include <asm/irq_regs.h>
@@ -6109,6 +6110,9 @@ void __cpuinit init_idle(struct task_str
*/
idle->sched_class = &idle_sched_class;
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(idle, cpu);
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+ sprintf(idle->comm, "%s/%d", INIT_TASK_COMM, cpu);
+#endif
}
/*
Index: linux-2.6/localversion-rt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/localversion-rt
+++ linux-2.6/localversion-rt
@@ -1 +1 @@
--rt22
+-rt23
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct mpage_da_data {
*/
#define EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN 0x0001
#define EXT4_IO_END_ERROR 0x0002
+#define EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED 0x0004
struct ext4_io_page {
struct page *p_page;
Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work
unsigned long flags;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+ /*
+ * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+ * items queued after this can be processed.
+ */
+ queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+ /*
+ * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+ * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+ * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+ * been requeued.
+ */
+ if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+ yield();
+ io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+ return;
+ }
ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
if (ret < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
--
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