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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/drop_caches.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 82377017130f..d31b6c72b476 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c @@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) { spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); + /* + * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip + * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case + * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups. + */ if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) || - (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) { + (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) { spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); continue; } @@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused) spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); + cond_resched(); invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1); iput(toput_inode); toput_inode = inode; |