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  1. 14 7月, 2012 38 次提交
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      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm · e7654c1e
      由 Linus Torvalds 提交于 
      Pull a couple of KVM fixes from Avi Kivity:
 "One is an adjustment for an irq layer change that affected device
  assignment, the other a one-liner ppc fix."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE
  KVM: Fix device assignment threaded irq handler
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      block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow · 91f68c89
      由 Jeff Moyer 提交于 
      Commit 080399aa ("block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as
mapped") exposed a bug in __getblk_slow that causes mount to hang as it
loops infinitely waiting for a buffer that lies beyond the end of the
disk to become uptodate.

The problem was initially reported by Torsten Hilbrich here:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/54

and also reported independently here:

    http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4511

and then Richard W.M.  Jones and Marcos Mello noted a few separate
bugzillas also associated with the same issue.  This patch has been
confirmed to fix:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019

The main problem is here, in __getblk_slow:

        for (;;) {
                struct buffer_head * bh;
                int ret;

                bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
                if (bh)
                        return bh;

                ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
                if (ret < 0)
                        return NULL;
                if (ret == 0)
                        free_more_memory();
        }

__find_get_block does not find the block, since it will not be marked as
mapped, and so grow_buffers is called to fill in the buffers for the
associated page.  I believe the for (;;) loop is there primarily to
retry in the case of memory pressure keeping grow_buffers from
succeeding.  However, we also continue to loop for other cases, like the
block lying beond the end of the disk.  So, the fix I came up with is to
only loop when grow_buffers fails due to memory allocation issues
(return value of 0).

The attached patch was tested by myself, Torsten, and Rich, and was
found to resolve the problem in call cases.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: NTorsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com>
Tested-by: NRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>  # 3.0+
[ Jens is on vacation, taking this directly  - Linus ]
--
Stable Notes: this patch requires backport to 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      91f68c89