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authorSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>2013-04-13 23:03:06 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-13 23:13:55 (GMT)
commit5b55d708335a9e3e4f61f2dadf7511502205ccd1 (patch)
tree83e4687e7be804ede22f993a901264dddb001018
parenta49b7e82cab0f9b41f483359be83f44fbb6b4979 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-5b55d708335a9e3e4f61f2dadf7511502205ccd1.tar.xz
vfs: Revert spurious fix to spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb
Revert commit 62a3ddef6181 ("vfs: fix spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb"). This commit doesn't look right: since we are looking at the tail of the list (sb->s_inode_lru.prev) if we want to skip an inode, we should put it back at the head of the list instead of the tail, otherwise we will keep spinning on it. Discovered when investigating why prune_icache_sb came top in perf reports of a swapping load. Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index f5f7c06..a898b3d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ void prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nr_to_scan)
* inode to the back of the list so we don't spin on it.
*/
if (!spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock)) {
- list_move_tail(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru);
+ list_move(&inode->i_lru, &sb->s_inode_lru);
continue;
}