From 22cf8bc6cb0d48c6d31da8eccbd4201ab9b0c4c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:15:23 -0700 Subject: kernel/kthread.c: kthread_worker: don't hog the cpu If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu stall complains. Make it a good citizen. This is triggered in a loop block device test. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kthread.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c') diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 26db528c1d88..1c19edf82427 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ repeat: schedule(); try_to_freeze(); + cond_resched(); goto repeat; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_worker_fn); -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522