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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 94a047bb6c39..a87da524a4a0 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -401,6 +401,13 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr) } spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock); + /* + * In the following loop we are going to check whether we have + * some work to do without any synchronization with tasks + * waking us up to do work for them. So we have to set task + * state already here so that we don't miss wakeups coming + * after we verify some condition. + */ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); list_for_each_entry(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) { |