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From: Zijiang Huang <huangzjsmile@gmail.com>
To: baoquan.he@linux.dev
Cc: albinwyang@tencent.com, bhe@redhat.com, flyingpeng@tencent.com,
	huangzjsmile@gmail.com, kasong@tencent.com,
	kerayhuang@tencent.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/swap: Add cond_resched() in swap_reclaim_full_clusters to prevent softlockup
Date: Wed,  6 May 2026 21:09:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260506130919.2298807-1-kerayhuang@tencent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afQTXPLbNrB3NOqe@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>

We hit a real softlockup in an internal stress test environment.
The workload was LTP memory/swap stress on a large arm64 machine,
with 320 CPUs, about 1TB memory and an 8.6GB swap device.
The system was under heavy load and the swap device had a large
number of full clusters. The softlockup was triggered during
a stress test after about 3 days.

So, add periodic cond_resched() calls during large full_clusters
reclaim operations to prevent softlockup issues.

Detailed call trace as follow:

PID: 3817773  TASK: ffff0883bb28b780  CPU: 48   COMMAND: "kworker/48:7"
   #0 [ffff800080183d10] __crash_kexec at ffffa4c1361e5de4
   #1 [ffff800080183d90] panic at ffffa4c1360d5e9c
   #2 [ffff800080183e20] watchdog_timer_fn at ffffa4c136231fa8
   ...
  #16 [ffff8000c4ad3cb0] swap_cache_del_folio at ffffa4c1363e1614
  #17 [ffff8000c4ad3ce0] __try_to_reclaim_swap at ffffa4c1363e4bfc
  #18 [ffff8000c4ad3d40] swap_reclaim_full_clusters at ffffa4c1363e5474
  #19 [ffff8000c4ad3da0] swap_reclaim_work at ffffa4c1363e550c
  #20 [ffff8000c4ad3dc0] process_one_work at ffffa4c136102edc
  #21 [ffff8000c4ad3e10] worker_thread at ffffa4c136103398
  #22 [ffff8000c4ad3e70] kthread at ffffa4c13610d95c

Fixes: 5168a68eb78f ("mm, swap: avoid over reclaim of full clusters")
Signed-off-by: Zijiang Huang <kerayhuang@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: albinwyang <albinwyang@tencent.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 9174f1eeffb0..74a1e324449d 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1054,6 +1054,7 @@ static void swap_reclaim_full_clusters(struct swap_info_struct *si, bool force)
 		swap_cluster_unlock(ci);
 		if (to_scan <= 0)
 			break;
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.43.5



      reply	other threads:[~2026-05-06 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-24 12:37 [PATCH] mm/swap: Add cond_resched() in swap_reclaim_full_clusters to prevent softlockup kerayhuang
2026-04-24 15:39 ` Baoquan He
2026-04-29 12:49   ` kerayhuang
2026-05-01  2:43     ` Baoquan He
2026-05-06 13:09       ` Zijiang Huang [this message]

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