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Patch "bcache: Add a cond_resched() call to gc" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

bcache: Add a cond_resched() call to gc

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
bcache-add-a-cond_resched-call-to-gc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From c5f1e5adf956e3ba82d204c7c141a75da9fa449a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:18:33 -0800
Subject: bcache: Add a cond_resched() call to gc

From: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

commit c5f1e5adf956e3ba82d204c7c141a75da9fa449a upstream.

---
 drivers/md/bcache/btree.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/md/bcache/btree.c +1 -0
@@ -1741,6 +1741,7 @@ static void bch_btree_gc(struct cache_se
 	do {
 		ret = btree_root(gc_root, c, &op, &writes, &stats);
 		closure_sync(&writes);
+		cond_resched();
 
 		if (ret && ret != -EAGAIN)
 			pr_warn("gc failed!");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/bcache-clear-bcache_dev_unlink_done-flag-when-attaching-a-backing-device.patch queue-4.4/bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.patch queue-4.4/bcache-fix-a-livelock-when-we-cause-a-huge-number-of-cache-misses.patch queue-4.4/bcache-unregister-reboot-notifier-if-bcache-fails-to-unregister-device.patch queue-4.4/bcache-add-a-cond_resched-call-to-gc.patch