From a473767a5b67bc7b0196a61e9e26aec5298c1928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:28:26 +0100
Subject: block: Use cpu_chill() for retry loops

Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was
preempted. Steven also observed a live lock when there was a
concurrent priority boosting going on.

Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system
make progress.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
index 46cd7bd..899d3e4 100644
--- a/block/blk-ioc.c
+++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>	/* for max_pfn/max_low_pfn */
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include "blk.h"
 
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ static void ioc_release_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 			spin_unlock(q->queue_lock);
 		} else {
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags);
-			cpu_relax();
+			cpu_chill();
 			spin_lock_irqsave_nested(&ioc->lock, flags, 1);
 		}
 	}
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ retry:
 			spin_unlock(icq->q->queue_lock);
 		} else {
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags);
-			cpu_relax();
+			cpu_chill();
 			goto retry;
 		}
 	}
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