[PATCH 4.4 011/112] x86/mm/ptdump: Fix soft lockup in page table walker

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-10-27T13:56:58Z

From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

commit 146fbb766934dc003fcbf755b519acef683576bf upstream.

CONFIG_KASAN=y needs a lot of virtual memory mapped for its shadow.
In that case ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core() takes a lot of time to
walk across all page tables and doing this without
a rescheduling causes soft lockups:

NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1]
...
Call Trace:
ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x40c/0x550
ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
mark_rodata_ro+0x13b/0x150
kernel_init+0x2f/0x120
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

I guess that this issue might arise even without KASAN on huge machines
with several terabytes of RAM.

Stick cond_resched() in pgd loop to fix this.

Reported-by: Tobias Regnery <tobias.regnery@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210095405.31802-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 4.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>

#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -407,6 +408,7 @@ static void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core(s
} else
note_page(m, &st, __pgprot(0), 1);

+ cond_resched();
start++;
}