The patch titled
Subject: memremap: add scheduling point to devm_memremap_pages
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
memremap-add-scheduling-point-to-devm_memremap_pages.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: memremap: add scheduling point to devm_memremap_pages
devm_memremap_pages is initializing struct pages in for_each_device_pfn
and that can take quite some time. We have even seen a soft lockup
triggering on a non preemptive kernel
[ 125.583233] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#61 stuck for 22s! [kworker/u641:11:1808]
[...]
[ 125.583467] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8118b6b7>] [<ffffffff8118b6b7>] devm_memremap_pages+0x327/0x430
[...]
[ 125.583488] Call Trace:
[ 125.583496] [<ffffffffa016550d>] pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem]
[ 125.583528] [<ffffffffa14ae984>] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm]
[ 125.583536] [<ffffffff8146b257>] driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420
[ 125.583540] [<ffffffff81469212>] bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80
[ 125.583543] [<ffffffff8146af40>] __device_attach+0xb0/0x130
[ 125.583546] [<ffffffff8146a367>] bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
[ 125.583548] [<ffffffff814682fc>] device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0
[ 125.583553] [<ffffffffa14adffe>] nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm]
[ 125.583556] [<ffffffff8109e413>] async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150
[ 125.583561] [<ffffffff81095b8e>] process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
[ 125.583563] [<ffffffff810963f6>] worker_thread+0x116/0x490
[ 125.583565] [<ffffffff8109b8c7>] kthread+0xc7/0xe0
[ 125.583569] [<ffffffff8160a57f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
fix this by adding cond_resched every 1024 pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-4-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/memremap.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/memremap.c~memremap-add-scheduling-point-to-devm_memremap_pages kernel/memremap.c
--- a/kernel/memremap.c~memremap-add-scheduling-point-to-devm_memremap_pages
+++ a/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ void *devm_memremap_pages(struct device
pgprot_t pgprot = PAGE_KERNEL;
struct dev_pagemap *pgmap;
struct page_map *page_map;
- int error, nid, is_ram;
+ int error, nid, is_ram, i = 0;
align_start = res->start & ~(SECTION_SIZE - 1);
align_size = ALIGN(res->start + resource_size(res), SECTION_SIZE)
@@ -448,6 +448,8 @@ void *devm_memremap_pages(struct device
list_del(&page->lru);
page->pgmap = pgmap;
percpu_ref_get(ref);
+ if (!(++i % 1024))
+ cond_resched();
}
devres_add(dev, page_map);
return __va(res->start);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are
mm-memory_hotplug-do-not-back-off-draining-pcp-free-pages-from-kworker-context.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-do-not-fail-offlining-too-early.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-timeout-from-__offline_memory.patch
mm-hugetlb-drop-hugepages_treat_as_movable-sysctl.patch
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