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Michal Hocko authored
Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: fix few soft lockups in memory hotadd". Johannes has noticed few soft lockups when adding a large nvdimm device. All of them were caused by a long loop without any explicit cond_resched which is a problem for !PREEMPT kernels. The fix is quite straightforward. Just make sure that cond_resched gets called from time to time. This patch (of 3): __add_pages gets a pfn range to add and there is no upper bound for a single call. This is usually a memory block aligned size for the regular memory hotplug - smaller sizes are usual for memory balloning drivers, or the whole NUMA node for physical memory online. There is no explicit scheduling point in that code path though. This can lead to long latencies while __add_pages is executed and we have even seen a soft lockup report during nvdimm initialization with !PREEMPT kernel NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u641:3:832] [...] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn task: ffff881809270f40 ti: ffff881809274000 task.ti: ffff881809274000 RIP: _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x20 RSP: 0018:ffff881809277b10 EFLAGS: 00000286 [...] Call Trace: sparse_add_one_section+0x13d/0x18e __add_pages+0x10a/0x1d0 arch_add_memory+0x4a/0xc0 devm_memremap_pages+0x29d/0x430 pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm] driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420 bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80 __device_attach+0xb0/0x130 bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0 device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0 nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm] async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150 process_one_work+0x14e/0x410 worker_thread+0x116/0x490 kthread+0xc7/0xe0 ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 DWARF2 unwinder stuck at ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 Fix this by adding cond_resched once per each memory section in the given pfn range. Each section is constant amount of work which itself is not too expensive but many of them will just add up. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-2-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by:
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Tested-by:
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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