Commit ccfb5bd7 authored by Nathan Lynch's avatar Nathan Lynch Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/pseries/mobility: use cond_resched when updating device tree

After a partition migration, pseries_devicetree_update() processes
changes to the device tree communicated from the platform to
Linux. This is a relatively heavyweight operation, with multiple
device tree searches, memory allocations, and conversations with
partition firmware.

There's a few levels of nested loops which are bounded only by
decisions made by the platform, outside of Linux's control, and indeed
we have seen RCU stalls on large systems while executing this call
graph. Use cond_resched() in these loops so that the cpu is yielded
when needed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802192926.19277-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
parent 10e4850d
......@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
......@@ -207,7 +208,11 @@ static int update_dt_node(__be32 phandle, s32 scope)
prop_data += vd;
}
cond_resched();
}
cond_resched();
} while (rtas_rc == 1);
of_node_put(dn);
......@@ -310,8 +315,12 @@ int pseries_devicetree_update(s32 scope)
add_dt_node(phandle, drc_index);
break;
}
cond_resched();
}
}
cond_resched();
} while (rc == 1);
kfree(rtas_buf);
......
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