Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages()

[Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Naoya,

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 17:46:25 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:21:22PM -0700, Motohiro Kosaki wrote:
>> Naoya
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Naoya Horiguchi [mailto:n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:20 PM
>>> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
>>> Cc: mhocko@suse.cz; Motohiro Kosaki JP; iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com; aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com; m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com
>>> Subject: Re: [merged] mm-hugetlb-fix-softlockup-when-a-large-number-of-hugepages-are-freed.patch removed from -mm tree
>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> # off list
>>>
>>> This patch is obsolete and latest version is ver.2.
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg71283.html
>>> Could you queue the new one to go to mainline?
>>
>> [merged] mean the patch has already been merged the linus tree. So, it can be changed. Please make
>> an incremental patch.
> 
> Here it is.

Thank you for posting this incremental patch! 

Thanks,
Masayoshi Mizuma

> 
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
> ---
> Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages()
> 
> From: "Mizuma, Masayoshi" <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> soft lockup in freeing gigantic hugepage fixed in commit 55f67141a892
> "mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed."
> can happen in return_unused_surplus_pages(), so let's fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 7d57af2..761ef5b 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(struct hstate *h,
>   	while (nr_pages--) {
>   		if (!free_pool_huge_page(h, &node_states[N_MEMORY], 1))
>   			break;
> +		cond_resched_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>   	}
>   }
>   
> 

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