Subject: net: Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:10:04 +0100 Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.4/older/patches-5.4.3-rt1.tar.xz Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was preempted. Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system make progress. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -659,7 +660,7 @@ static void prb_retire_rx_blk_timer_expi if (BLOCK_NUM_PKTS(pbd)) { while (atomic_read(&pkc->blk_fill_in_prog)) { /* Waiting for skb_copy_bits to finish... */ - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); } } @@ -921,7 +922,7 @@ static void prb_retire_current_block(str if (!(status & TP_STATUS_BLK_TMO)) { while (atomic_read(&pkc->blk_fill_in_prog)) { /* Waiting for skb_copy_bits to finish... */ - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); } } prb_close_block(pkc, pbd, po, status);