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Commit 6c635cae authored by Baolin Wang's avatar Baolin Wang Committed by Jens Axboe
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blk-cgroup: Use cond_resched() when destroy blkgs



On !PREEMPT kernel, we can get below softlockup when doing stress
testing with creating and destroying block cgroup repeatly. The
reason is it may take a long time to acquire the queue's lock in
the loop of blkcg_destroy_blkgs(), or the system can accumulate a
huge number of blkgs in pathological cases. We can add a need_resched()
check on each loop and release locks and do cond_resched() if true
to avoid this issue, since the blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is not called
from atomic contexts.

[ 4757.010308] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 94s!
[ 4757.010698] Call trace:
[ 4757.010700]  blkcg_destroy_blkgs+0x68/0x150
[ 4757.010701]  cgwb_release_workfn+0x104/0x158
[ 4757.010702]  process_one_work+0x1bc/0x3f0
[ 4757.010704]  worker_thread+0x164/0x468
[ 4757.010705]  kthread+0x108/0x138

Suggested-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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