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We saw a hang in production with WBT where there was only one waiter in the throttle path and no outstanding IO. This is because of the has_sleepers optimization that is used to make sure we don't steal an inflight counter for new submitters when there are people already on the list. We can race with our check to see if the waitqueue has any waiters (this is done locklessly) and the time we actually add ourselves to the waitqueue. If this happens we'll go to sleep and never be woken up because nobody is doing IO to wake us up. Fix this by checking if the waitqueue has a single sleeper on the list after we add ourselves, that way we have an uptodate view of the list. Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.