From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1768299AbcHRO11 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:27:27 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37439 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1950525AbcHROPk (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:15:40 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jia He , Naoya Horiguchi , Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Mike Kravetz , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Paul Gortmaker , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.7 148/186] mm/hugetlb: avoid soft lockup in set_max_huge_pages() Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:59:25 +0200 Message-Id: <20160818135938.565052402@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20160818135932.219369981@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160818135932.219369981@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jia He 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 Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2214,6 +2214,10 @@ 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