mm/hugetlb: avoid soft lockup in set_max_huge_pages()
commit 649920c6 upstream. In powerpc servers with large memory(32TB), we watched several soft lockups for hugepage under stress tests. The call traces are as follows: 1. get_page_from_freelist+0x2d8/0xd50 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x180/0xc20 alloc_fresh_huge_page+0xb0/0x190 set_max_huge_pages+0x164/0x3b0 2. prep_new_huge_page+0x5c/0x100 alloc_fresh_huge_page+0xc8/0x190 set_max_huge_pages+0x164/0x3b0 This patch fixes such soft lockups. It is safe to call cond_resched() there because it is out of spin_lock/unlock section. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469674442-14848-1-git-send-email-hejianet@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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