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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 <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li 2017-08-31 16:15:23 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ repeat:
schedule();
try_to_freeze();
cond_resched();
goto repeat;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_worker_fn);