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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Michael reported soft lockups on a system that has unaccepted memory. This occurs when a user attempts to allocate and accept memory on multiple CPUs simultaneously. The root cause of the issue is that memory acceptance is serialized with a spinlock, allowing only one CPU to accept memory at a time. The other CPUs spin and wait for their turn, leading to starvation and soft lockup reports. To address this, the code has been modified to release the spinlock while accepting memory. This allows for parallel memory acceptance on multiple CPUs. A newly introduced "accepting_list" keeps track of which memory is currently being accepted. This is necessary to prevent parallel acceptance of the same memory block. If a collision occurs, the lock is released and the process is retried. Such collisions should rarely occur. The main path for memory acceptance is the page allocator, which accepts memory in MAX_ORDER chunks. As long as MAX_ORDER is equal to or larger than the unit_size, collisions will never occur because the caller fully owns the memory block being accepted. Aside from the page allocator, only memblock and deferered_free_range() accept memory, but this only happens during boot. The code has been tested with unit_size == 128MiB to trigger collisions and validate the retry codepath. Fixes: 2053bc57 ("efi: Add unaccepted memory support") Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> [ardb: drop unnecessary cpu_relax() call] Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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