6.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mateusz Guzik mjguzik@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 122381a46954ad592ee93d7da2bef5074b396247 ]
A soft lockup in ilookup was reported when stress-testing a 512-way system [1] (see [2] for full context) and it was verified that not taking the lock shifts issues back to mm.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/56865e57-c250-44da-9713-cf1404595bcc@amd.co... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d2841226-e27b-4d3d-a578-63587a3aa4f3@amd.co...
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik mjguzik@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715071324.265879-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/inode.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 551ba352072fa..30d42ab137f0a 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1578,9 +1578,7 @@ struct inode *ilookup(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) struct hlist_head *head = inode_hashtable + hash(sb, ino); struct inode *inode; again: - spin_lock(&inode_hash_lock); - inode = find_inode_fast(sb, head, ino, true); - spin_unlock(&inode_hash_lock); + inode = find_inode_fast(sb, head, ino, false);
if (inode) { if (IS_ERR(inode))