mmc: queue: prevent soft lockups on PREEMPT=n
authorRabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:26:11 +0000 (19:26 +0200)
committerUlf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:21:04 +0000 (09:21 +0200)
commita8c27c0bea45c6531fbc1e3be79ddd5a9bc1ba3e
treec1e435d9fc1afbe02aea49f957504cbdce9b0f11
parent4b8a43e90ccf88c91475b802d1388c0779be2bda
mmc: queue: prevent soft lockups on PREEMPT=n

On systems with CONFIG_PREEMPT=n, under certain circumstances, mmcqd
can continuously process requests for several seconds without blocking,
triggering the soft lockup watchdog.  For example, this can happen if
mmcqd runs on the CPU which services the controller's interrupt, and
a process on a different CPU continuously writes to the MMC block
device.

 NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [mmcqd/0:664]
 CPU: 0 PID: 664 Comm: mmcqd/0 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7+ #4
 PC is at _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x28
 LR is at mmc_start_request+0x104/0x134
 ...
 [<805112a8>] (_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore) from [<803db664>] (mmc_start_request+0x104/0x134)
 [<803db664>] (mmc_start_request) from [<803dc008>] (mmc_start_req+0x274/0x394)
 [<803dc008>] (mmc_start_req) from [<803eb2c4>] (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq+0xd0/0xb98)
 [<803eb2c4>] (mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq) from [<803ebe8c>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq+0x100/0x470)
 [<803ebe8c>] (mmc_blk_issue_rq) from [<803ecab8>] (mmc_queue_thread+0xd0/0x170)
 [<803ecab8>] (mmc_queue_thread) from [<8003fd14>] (kthread+0xe0/0xfc)
 [<8003fd14>] (kthread) from [<8000f768>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)

Fix it by adding a cond_resched() in the request handling loop so that
other processes get a chance to run.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
drivers/mmc/card/queue.c