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. Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> 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> --- This is just a resend of patch #2 of https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200401104156.11564-3-david@xxxxxxxxxx Not that patch #1 was replaced by https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403140952.17177-4-pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx --- mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1385d786a01a..ae1545246b69 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(); } /* We confirm that there is no hole */ -- 2.25.1
