twx-linux/include
Jeff Layton 13d34ac6e5 Revert "fsnotify: destroy marks with call_srcu instead of dedicated thread"
This reverts commit c510eff6beba ("fsnotify: destroy marks with
call_srcu instead of dedicated thread").

Eryu reported that he was seeing some OOM kills kick in when running a
testcase that adds and removes inotify marks on a file in a tight loop.

The above commit changed the code to use call_srcu to clean up the
marks.  While that does (in principle) work, the srcu callback job is
limited to cleaning up entries in small batches and only once per jiffy.
It's easily possible to overwhelm that machinery with too many call_srcu
callbacks, and Eryu's reproduer did just that.

There's also another potential problem with using call_srcu here.  While
you can obviously sleep while holding the srcu_read_lock, the callbacks
run under local_bh_disable, so you can't sleep there.

It's possible when putting the last reference to the fsnotify_mark that
we'll end up putting a chain of references including the fsnotify_group,
uid, and associated keys.  While I don't see any obvious ways that that
could occurs, it's probably still best to avoid using call_srcu here
after all.

This patch reverts the above patch.  A later patch will take a different
approach to eliminated the dedicated thread here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Reported-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
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acpi ACPI / CPPC: remove redundant mbox_send_message() declaration 2016-02-03 01:09:52 +01:00
asm-generic cputime: Prevent 32bit overflow in time[val|spec]_to_cputime() 2016-02-02 15:24:38 +01:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-01-22 11:58:43 -08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-fixes-mst' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux into drm-fixes 2016-02-05 15:24:17 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
keys
kvm
linux Revert "fsnotify: destroy marks with call_srcu instead of dedicated thread" 2016-02-18 16:23:24 -08:00
math-emu
media [media] vb2: fix nasty vb2_thread regression 2016-02-04 09:13:46 -02:00
memory
misc
net vxlan, gre, geneve: Set a large MTU on ovs-created tunnel devices 2016-02-10 05:50:03 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers 2016-01-19 15:35:01 -05:00
rxrpc
scsi Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
sound ALSA: rawmidi: Make snd_rawmidi_transmit() race-free 2016-02-03 14:51:28 +01:00
target target/transport: add flag to indicate CPU Affinity is observed 2016-02-10 23:08:55 -08:00
trace This includes three minor fixes, mostly due to cut-and-paste issues. 2016-01-28 17:00:50 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2016-02-01 15:21:20 -08:00
video
xen Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-01-21 18:19:38 -08:00
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