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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2011-10-20 17:14:25 +0400
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2011-10-20 17:14:25 +0400
commitb4cbb8a4e602ea77b0525d06eff89c6a6070dab3 (patch)
treea5dd723679582505ef3905c90f0c2c032d191b94 /fs/ext4/page-io.c
parent526b264163068f77c5f2409031f5e25caf3900a9 (diff)
parentc5d7a9230e5e277f262b6806b7f4d6b35de5a3fb (diff)
downloadlinux-b4cbb8a4e602ea77b0525d06eff89c6a6070dab3.tar.xz
Merge branch 'imx-features-for-arnd' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into imx/devel
Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-mx5/clock-mx51-mx53.c arch/arm/mach-mx5/devices-imx53.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/page-io.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/page-io.c18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 78839af7ce29..92f38ee13f8a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct 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);