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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-06-10 21:11:57 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-16 08:47:37 -0700
commit7dd0931198ce3e25901ffb56036bb070efe9f987 (patch)
tree10bbc06400be41b656dc4e5f9465fceb5b949e3a /drivers/net/dummy.c
parente99e096f4b388824e49ce5c6568eacf46c94438f (diff)
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dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls
[ Upstream commit 16b0dc29c1af9df341428f4c49ada4f626258082 ] Trying to "modprobe dummy numdummies=30000" triggers : INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 8} (t=60000 jiffies) After this splat, RTNL is locked and reboot is needed. We must call cond_resched() to avoid this, even holding RTNL. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/dummy.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/dummy.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/dummy.c b/drivers/net/dummy.c
index 3fa19c16211..098ff315694 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dummy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dummy.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
#include <net/rtnetlink.h>
#include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
static int numdummies = 1;
@@ -186,8 +187,10 @@ static int __init dummy_init_module(void)
rtnl_lock();
err = __rtnl_link_register(&dummy_link_ops);
- for (i = 0; i < numdummies && !err; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < numdummies && !err; i++) {
err = dummy_init_one();
+ cond_resched();
+ }
if (err < 0)
__rtnl_link_unregister(&dummy_link_ops);
rtnl_unlock();