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If regular request queue gets full, currently we sleep for a bit and retrying submission in submitter's context. This assumes submitter is not holding any spin lock. But this assumption is not true for background requests. For background requests, we are called with fc->bg_lock held. This can lead to deadlock where one thread is trying submission with fc->bg_lock held while request completion thread has called fuse_request_end() which tries to acquire fc->bg_lock and gets blocked. As request completion thread gets blocked, it does not make further progress and that means queue does not get empty and submitter can't submit more requests. To solve this issue, retry submission with the help of a worker, instead of retrying in submitter's context. We already do this for hiprio/forget requests. Reported-by: Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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.