[PATCH 4.19 28/48] mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-13T10:05:15Z

From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

commit e84fe99b68ce353c37ceeecc95dce9696c976556 upstream.

Without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can happen that we get soft lockups detected,
e.g., while booting up.

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-next-20200331+ #4
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014
RIP: __pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x134/0x1c0
Call Trace:
set_zone_contiguous+0x56/0x70
page_alloc_init_late+0x166/0x176
kernel_init_freeable+0xfa/0x255
kernel_init+0xa/0x106
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

The issue becomes visible when having a lot of memory (e.g., 4TB)
assigned to a single NUMA node - a system that can easily be created
using QEMU. Inside VMs on a hypervisor with quite some memory
overcommit, this is fairly easy to trigger.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416073417.5003-1-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zo
if (!__pageblock_pfn_to_page(block_start_pfn,
block_end_pfn, zone))
return;
+ cond_resched();
}

/* We confirm that there is no hole */