[PATCH] Remove semi-softlockup from invalidate_mapping_pages
If invalidate_mapping_pages is called to invalidate a very large mapping (e.g. a very large block device) and if the only active page in that device is near the end (or at least, at a very large index), such as, say, the superblock of an md array, and if that page happens to be locked when invalidate_mapping_pages is called, then pagevec_lookup will return this page and as it is locked, 'next' will be incremented and pagevec_lookup will be called again. and again. and again. while we count from 0 upto a very large number. We should really always set 'next' to 'page->index+1' before going around the loop again, not just if the page isn't locked. Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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