Subject: block: Use cpu_chill() for retry loops From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:28:26 +0100 Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.4/older/patches-5.4.17-rt8.tar.xz Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was preempted. Steven also observed a live lock when there was a concurrent priority boosting going on. Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system make progress. [bigeasy: After all those changes that occured over the years, this one hunk is left and should not cause any starvation on -RT anymore] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- block/blk-ioc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/block/blk-ioc.c +++ b/block/blk-ioc.c @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "blk.h" @@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ static void ioc_release_fn(struct work_s spin_unlock(&q->queue_lock); } else { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags); - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&ioc->lock, flags, 1); } }