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vfs: use RCU in ilookup
authorMateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:13:24 +0000 (09:13 +0200)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:22:36 +0000 (08:22 +0200)
commit122381a46954ad592ee93d7da2bef5074b396247
treecb3e4f63bcda69c2dcfda20bc438c1828ffb097f
parent641bb4394f405cba498b100b44541ffc0aed5be1
vfs: use RCU in ilookup

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.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d2841226-e27b-4d3d-a578-63587a3aa4f3@amd.com/

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>
fs/inode.c