From b5451f7b2694b04d9f912f6cf09db1729f291996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:00:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator If the Orlov allocator is having trouble finding an appropriate block group, the fallback code could loop forever, causing a soft lockup warning in find_group_orlov(): BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [cp:11728] ... Pid: 11728, comm: cp Not tainted (2.6.30-rc1-dirty #77) Lenovo EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 EIP is at ext4_get_group_desc+0x54/0x9d ... Call Trace: [] find_group_orlov+0x2ee/0x334 [] ? sched_clock+0x8/0xb [] ext4_new_inode+0x2cf/0xb1a Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- Reading git-format-patch failed