From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary , Rusty Russell Subject: [PATCH 3.14 14/83] virtio_balloon: dont softlockup on huge balloon changes. Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 21:19:15 +0200 Message-Id: <20140511191909.023605930@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140511191907.024339448@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140511191907.024339448@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rusty Russell commit 1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 upstream. When adding or removing 100G from a balloon: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367] We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true (more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep. We also have a wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU is synchronous for balloon operations. Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ static int balloon(void *_vballoon) else if (diff < 0) leak_balloon(vb, -diff); update_balloon_size(vb); + + /* + * For large balloon changes, we could spend a lot of time + * and always have work to do. Be nice if preempt disabled. + */ + cond_resched(); } return 0; }