Patch "mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()

to the 4.14-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-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 4991c09c7c812dba13ea9be79a68b4565bb1fa4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:17:52 -0800
Subject: mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()

From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 4991c09c7c812dba13ea9be79a68b4565bb1fa4e upstream.

While testing on a large CPU system, detected the following RCU stall
many times over the span of the workload.  This problem is solved by
adding a cond_resched() in the change_pmd_range() function.

  INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
   154-....: (670 ticks this GP) idle=022/140000000000000/0 softirq=2825/2825 fqs=612
   (detected by 955, t=6002 jiffies, g=4486, c=4485, q=90864)
  Sending NMI from CPU 955 to CPUs 154:
  NMI backtrace for cpu 154
  CPU: 154 PID: 147071 Comm: workload Not tainted 4.15.0-rc3+ #3
  NIP:  c0000000000b3f64 LR: c0000000000b33d4 CTR: 000000000000aa18
  REGS: 00000000a4b0fb44 TRAP: 0501   Not tainted  (4.15.0-rc3+)
  MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 22422082  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: 00000000006cf8f0 SOFTE: 1
  GPR00: 0010000000000000 c00003ef9b1cb8c0 c0000000010cc600 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 8e0000018c32b200 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b208 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR08: 8e0000018c32b210 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b218 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR12: ffffffffffffffff c00000000fb25100
  NIP [c0000000000b3f64] plpar_hcall9+0x44/0x7c
  LR [c0000000000b33d4] pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range+0x384/0x420
  Call Trace:
    flush_hash_range+0x48/0x100
    __flush_tlb_pending+0x44/0xd0
    hpte_need_flush+0x408/0x470
    change_protection_range+0xaac/0xf10
    change_prot_numa+0x30/0xb0
    task_numa_work+0x2d0/0x3e0
    task_work_run+0x130/0x190
    do_notify_resume+0x118/0x120
    ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74
  Instruction dump:
  60000000 f8810028 7ca42b78 7cc53378 7ce63b78 7d074378 7d284b78 7d495378
  e9410060 e9610068 e9810070 44000022 <7d806378> e9810028 f88c0000 f8ac0008

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214140551.5794-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.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/mprotect.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (!is_swap_pmd(*pmd) && !pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) && !pmd_devmap(*pmd)
 				&& pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
-			continue;
+			goto next;
 
 		/* invoke the mmu notifier if the pmd is populated */
 		if (!mni_start) {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
 					}
 
 					/* huge pmd was handled */
-					continue;
+					goto next;
 				}
 			}
 			/* fall through, the trans huge pmd just split */
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
 		this_pages = change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
 				 dirty_accountable, prot_numa);
 		pages += this_pages;
+next:
+		cond_resched();
 	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
 
 	if (mni_start)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.14/mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch