[PATCH] proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Dec 03 2015 - 14:18:33 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

User can pass an arbitrary large buffer to getdents().

It is typically a 32KB buffer used by libc scandir() implementation.

When scanning /proc/{pid}/fd, we can hold cpu way too long,
so add a cond_resched() to be kind with other tasks.

We've seen latencies of more than 50ms on real workloads.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/fd.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index 3c2a915c695a..56afa5ef08f2 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ static int proc_readfd_common(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx,
name, len, instantiate, p,
(void *)(unsigned long)fd))
goto out_fd_loop;
+ cond_resched();
rcu_read_lock();
}
rcu_read_unlock();


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