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kernel/kthread.c: kthread_worker: don't hog the cpu
If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu stall complains. Make it a good citizen. This is triggered in a loop block device test. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ int kthread_worker_fn(void *worker_ptr)
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schedule();
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try_to_freeze();
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cond_resched();
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goto repeat;
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_worker_fn);

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