From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15.y 0/2] fix softlockups in stage2_apply_range()
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:49:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zed3T8SGyIkvW-Ru@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1709665227.git.kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:41:38AM -0800, Krister Johansen wrote:
> Hi Stable Team,
> In 5.15, unmapping large kvm vms on arm64 can generate softlockups. My team has
> been hitting this when tearing down VMs > 100Gb in size.
>
> Oliver fixed this with the attached patches. They've been in mainline since
> 6.1.
>
> I tested on 5.15.150 with these patches applied. When they're present,
> both the dirty_log_perf_test detailed in the second patch, and
> kvm_page_table_test no longer generate softlockups when unmapping VMs
> with large memory configurations.
>
> Would you please consider these patches for inclusion in an upcoming 5.15
> release?
Backport looks fine, and I have no issues with this going to stable if
it helps folks.
Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
--
Thanks,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-05 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-05 19:41 [PATCH 5.15.y 0/2] fix softlockups in stage2_apply_range() Krister Johansen
2024-03-05 19:41 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/2] KVM: arm64: Work out supported block level at compile time Krister Johansen
2024-03-05 19:41 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 2/2] KVM: arm64: Limit stage2_apply_range() batch size to largest block Krister Johansen
2024-03-05 19:49 ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2024-03-06 0:49 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 0/2] fix softlockups in stage2_apply_range() Krister Johansen
2024-03-06 0:49 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: Work out supported block level at compile time Krister Johansen
2024-03-06 0:49 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: Limit stage2_apply_range() batch size to largest block Krister Johansen
2024-03-06 10:08 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 0/2] fix softlockups in stage2_apply_range() Marc Zyngier
2024-03-29 12:21 ` Greg KH
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