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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-11-09 11:04:37 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-11-09 11:04:37 -0800
commit14684b93019a2d2ece0df5acaf921924541b928d (patch)
tree29cf04da2f22b85b6051b47b3731e91a43d4c94d /lib/dump_stack.c
parent92da362c07d413786ab59db1665376fb63805586 (diff)
parent0058b0a506e40d9a2c62015fe92eb64a44d78cd9 (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
One conflict in the BPF samples Makefile, some fixes in 'net' whilst we were converting over to Makefile.target rules in 'net-next'. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/dump_stack.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/dump_stack.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index 5cff72f18c4a..33ffbf308853 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ retry:
was_locked = 1;
} else {
local_irq_restore(flags);
- cpu_relax();
+ /*
+ * Wait for the lock to release before jumping to
+ * atomic_cmpxchg() in order to mitigate the thundering herd
+ * problem.
+ */
+ do { cpu_relax(); } while (atomic_read(&dump_lock) != -1);
goto retry;
}