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commit d3e3c102d107bb84251455a298cf475f24bab995 upstream. We need to ensure that we serialize the stalled and hash bits with the wait_queue wait handler, or we could be racing with someone modifying the hashed state after we find it busy, but before we then give up and wait for it to be cleared. This can cause random delays or stalls when handling buffered writes for many files, where some of these files cause hash collisions between the worker threads. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Daniel Black <daniel@mariadb.org> Fixes: e941894eae31 ("io-wq: make buffered file write hashed work map per-ctx") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.