Subject: net: Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:10:04 +0100 Retry loops on RT might loop forever when the modifying side was preempted. Use cpu_chill() instead of cpu_relax() to let the system make progress. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 5 +++-- net/rds/ib_rdma.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-stable/net/packet/af_packet.c =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ linux-stable/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #ifdef CONFIG_INET #include @@ -666,7 +667,7 @@ static void prb_retire_rx_blk_timer_expi if (BLOCK_NUM_PKTS(pbd)) { while (atomic_read(&pkc->blk_fill_in_prog)) { /* Waiting for skb_copy_bits to finish... */ - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); } } @@ -920,7 +921,7 @@ static void prb_retire_current_block(str if (!(status & TP_STATUS_BLK_TMO)) { while (atomic_read(&pkc->blk_fill_in_prog)) { /* Waiting for skb_copy_bits to finish... */ - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); } } prb_close_block(pkc, pbd, po, status); Index: linux-stable/net/rds/ib_rdma.c =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/net/rds/ib_rdma.c +++ linux-stable/net/rds/ib_rdma.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "rds.h" #include "ib.h" @@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ static inline void wait_clean_list_grace for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { flag = &per_cpu(clean_list_grace, cpu); while (test_bit(CLEAN_LIST_BUSY_BIT, flag)) - cpu_relax(); + cpu_chill(); } }