Patch "mm/hugetlb: avoid soft lockup in set_max_huge_pages()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm/hugetlb: avoid soft lockup in set_max_huge_pages()

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:
     mm-hugetlb-avoid-soft-lockup-in-set_max_huge_pages.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 649920c6ab93429b94bc7c1aa7c0e8395351be32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:02:31 -0700
Subject: mm/hugetlb: avoid soft lockup in set_max_huge_pages()

From: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>

commit 649920c6ab93429b94bc7c1aa7c0e8395351be32 upstream.

In powerpc servers with large memory(32TB), we watched several soft
lockups for hugepage under stress tests.

The call traces are as follows:
1.
get_page_from_freelist+0x2d8/0xd50
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x180/0xc20
alloc_fresh_huge_page+0xb0/0x190
set_max_huge_pages+0x164/0x3b0

2.
prep_new_huge_page+0x5c/0x100
alloc_fresh_huge_page+0xc8/0x190
set_max_huge_pages+0x164/0x3b0

This patch fixes such soft lockups.  It is safe to call cond_resched()
there because it is out of spin_lock/unlock section.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469674442-14848-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/hugetlb.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2170,6 +2170,10 @@ static unsigned long set_max_huge_pages(
 		 * and reducing the surplus.
 		 */
 		spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
+
+		/* yield cpu to avoid soft lockup */
+		cond_resched();
+
 		if (hstate_is_gigantic(h))
 			ret = alloc_fresh_gigantic_page(h, nodes_allowed);
 		else


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hejianet@gmail.com are

queue-4.4/mm-hugetlb-avoid-soft-lockup-in-set_max_huge_pages.patch