3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit 5d05e54af3cdbb13cf19c557ff2184781b91a22c ]

Chuck pointed out a problem that crept in with commit 6ffa30d3f734 (nfs:
don't call blocking operations while !TASK_RUNNING). Linux counts tasks
in uninterruptible sleep against the load average, so this caused the
system's load average to be pinned at at least 1 when there was a
NFSv4.1+ mount active.

Not a huge problem, but it's probably worth fixing before we get too
many complaints about it. This patch converts the code back to use
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE sleep, simply has it flush any signals on each loop
iteration. In practice no one should really be signalling this thread at
all, so I think this is reasonably safe.

With this change, there's also no need to game the hung task watchdog so
we can also convert the schedule_timeout call back to a normal schedule.

Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.le...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.lay...@primarydata.com>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.le...@oracle.com>
Fixes: commit 6ffa30d3f734 (“nfs: don't call blocking . . .”)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfs/callback.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback.c b/fs/nfs/callback.c
index 3b8cdb8298c4..a78558a25035 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
                if (try_to_freeze())
                        continue;
 
-               prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+               prepare_to_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                spin_lock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
                if (!list_empty(&serv->sv_cb_list)) {
                        req = list_first_entry(&serv->sv_cb_list,
@@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ nfs41_callback_svc(void *vrqstp)
                                error);
                } else {
                        spin_unlock_bh(&serv->sv_cb_lock);
-                       /* schedule_timeout to game the hung task watchdog */
-                       schedule_timeout(60 * HZ);
+                       schedule();
                        finish_wait(&serv->sv_cb_waitq, &wq);
                }
+               flush_signals(current);
        }
        return 0;
 }
-- 
2.17.1



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