Merge commit 'v3.1-rc7' into perf/core

Merge reason: Pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 430c401d089..92f38ee13f8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -142,7 +142,23 @@ static void ext4_end_io_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	unsigned long		flags;
 	int			ret;
 
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&inode->i_mutex)) {
+		/*
+		 * Requeue the work instead of waiting so that the work
+		 * items queued after this can be processed.
+		 */
+		queue_work(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->dio_unwritten_wq, &io->work);
+		/*
+		 * To prevent the ext4-dio-unwritten thread from keeping
+		 * requeueing end_io requests and occupying cpu for too long,
+		 * yield the cpu if it sees an end_io request that has already
+		 * been requeued.
+		 */
+		if (io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED)
+			yield();
+		io->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_QUEUED;
+		return;
+	}
 	ret = ext4_end_io_nolock(io);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
@@ -334,8 +350,10 @@ submit_and_retry:
 	if ((io_end->num_io_pages >= MAX_IO_PAGES) &&
 	    (io_end->pages[io_end->num_io_pages-1] != io_page))
 		goto submit_and_retry;
-	if (buffer_uninit(bh))
-		io->io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+	if (buffer_uninit(bh) && !(io_end->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
+		io_end->flag |= EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN;
+		atomic_inc(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_aiodio_unwritten);
+	}
 	io->io_end->size += bh->b_size;
 	io->io_next_block++;
 	ret = bio_add_page(io->io_bio, bh->b_page, bh->b_size, bh_offset(bh));