As it stands if a shrink is delayed because of an outstanding rehash, we will go into a rescheduling loop without ever doing the rehash. This patch fixes this by still carrying out the rehash and then rescheduling so that we can shrink after the completion of the rehash should it still be necessary. The return value of EEXIST captures this case and other cases (e.g., another thread expanded/rehashed the table at the same time) where we should still proceed with the rehash. Fixes: da20420f83ea ("rhashtable: Add nested tables") Reported-by: Josh Elsasser <jelsasser@appneta.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Tested-by: Josh Elsasser <jelsasser@appneta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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