On 04/01/20 at 12:41pm, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can happen that we get soft lockups detected, > e.g., while booting up. > > [ 105.608900] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1] > [ 105.608933] Modules linked in: > [ 105.608933] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-next-20200331+ #4 > [ 105.608933] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014 > [ 105.608933] RIP: 0010:__pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x134/0x1c0 > [ 105.608933] Code: 85 c0 74 71 4a 8b 04 d0 48 85 c0 74 68 48 01 c1 74 63 f6 01 04 74 5e 48 c1 e7 06 4c 8b 05 cc 991 > [ 105.608933] RSP: 0000:ffffb6d94000fe60 EFLAGS: 00010286 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13 > [ 105.608933] RAX: fffff81953250000 RBX: 000000000a4c9600 RCX: ffff8fe9ff7c1990 > [ 105.608933] RDX: ffff8fe9ff7dab80 RSI: 000000000a4c95ff RDI: 0000000293250000 > [ 105.608933] RBP: ffff8fe9ff7dab80 R08: fffff816c0000000 R09: 0000000000000008 > [ 105.608933] R10: 0000000000000014 R11: 0000000000000014 R12: 0000000000000000 > [ 105.608933] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > [ 105.608933] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fe1ff400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 105.608933] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 105.608933] CR2: 000000000f613000 CR3: 00000088cf20a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 > [ 105.608933] Call Trace: > [ 105.608933] set_zone_contiguous+0x56/0x70 > [ 105.608933] page_alloc_init_late+0x166/0x176 > [ 105.608933] kernel_init_freeable+0xfa/0x255 > [ 105.608933] ? rest_init+0xaa/0xaa > [ 105.608933] kernel_init+0xa/0x106 > [ 105.608933] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 > > The issue becomes visible when having a lot of memory (e.g., 4TB) > assigned to a single NUMA node - a system that can easily be created > using QEMU. Inside VMs on a hypervisor with quite some memory > overcommit, this is fairly easy to trigger. > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 084cabffc90d..cc4f07d52939 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -1607,6 +1607,7 @@ void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone) > if (!__pageblock_pfn_to_page(block_start_pfn, > block_end_pfn, zone)) > return; > + cond_resched(); > } Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>