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authorSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>2013-04-13 16:03:06 -0700
committerXavier Boudet <x-boudet@ti.com>2013-04-17 09:06:52 +0200
commitcbbb59ccc0a03411a190b3d78c2240c7fff65b5a (patch)
tree714ccfe1fccce299da09085e5ec84233d4dd61c4
parentc3d55a2ed7503c4ca1dfef716459dab2122dab6b (diff)
vfs: Revert spurious fix to spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb
commit 5b55d708335a9e3e4f61f2dadf7511502205ccd1 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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 9f4f5fecc096..8de457e8ed09 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ 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;
}