dm mpath: do not lock up a CPU with requeuing activity
authorBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Wed, 9 Aug 2017 18:32:12 +0000 (11:32 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 7 Sep 2017 06:37:16 +0000 (08:37 +0200)
commit399081a50c48b3d7b205d08975c67aa53c391238
tree2e543aed05159e748ef791158eeafe9d0bb2c7ee
parent77ab9e7fb4312d3b377690660f757d900fa9e171
dm mpath: do not lock up a CPU with requeuing activity

commit 1c23484c355ec360ca2f37914f8a4802c6baeead upstream.

When using the block layer in single queue mode, get_request()
returns ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) if the queue is dying and the REQ_NOWAIT
flag has been passed to get_request(). Avoid that the kernel
reports soft lockup complaints in this case due to continuous
requeuing activity.

Fixes: 7083abbbf ("dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm-mpath.c