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We tested a soft lockup problem in linux 4.19 which could also be found in linux 5.x. When dir inode takes up a large number of blocks, and if the directory is growing when we are searching, it's possible the restart branch could be called many times, and the do while loop could hold cpu a long time. Here is the call trace in linux 4.19. [ 473.756186] Call trace: [ 473.756196] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x198 [ 473.756199] show_stack+0x24/0x30 [ 473.756205] dump_stack+0xa4/0xcc [ 473.756210] watchdog_timer_fn+0x300/0x3e8 [ 473.756215] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x114/0x358 [ 473.756217] hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x2d8 [ 473.756222] arch_timer_handler_virt+0x38/0x58 [ 473.756226] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x90/0x248 [ 473.756231] generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50 [ 473.756234] __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0 [ 473.756236] gic_handle_irq+0x6c/0x150 [ 473.756238] el1_irq+0xb8/0x140 [ 473.756286] ext4_es_lookup_extent+0xdc/0x258 [ext4] [ 473.756310] ext4_map_blocks+0x64/0x5c0 [ext4] [ 473.756333] ext4_getblk+0x6c/0x1d0 [ext4] [ 473.756356] ext4_bread_batch+0x7c/0x1f8 [ext4] [ 473.756379] ext4_find_entry+0x124/0x3f8 [ext4] [ 473.756402] ext4_lookup+0x8c/0x258 [ext4] [ 473.756407] __lookup_hash+0x8c/0xe8 [ 473.756411] filename_create+0xa0/0x170 [ 473.756413] do_mkdirat+0x6c/0x140 [ 473.756415] __arm64_sys_mkdirat+0x28/0x38 [ 473.756419] el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130 [ 473.756421] el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78 [ 473.756423] el0_svc+0x8/0xc [ 485.755156] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 22s! [tmp:5149] Add cond_resched() to avoid soft lockup and to provide a better system responding. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200215080206.13293-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo <luoshijie1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: stable@kernel.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.