The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-add-cond_resched-in-swapin_walk_pmd_entry.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: add cond_resched() in swapin_walk_pmd_entry()
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 22:03:27 +0800
When handling MADV_WILLNEED in madvise(), a soflockup may occurr in
swapin_walk_pmd_entry() if swapping in lots of memory on a slow device.
Add a cond_resched() to avoid the possible softlockup.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221205140327.72304-1-wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1998cc048901 ("mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch")
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-add-cond_resched-in-swapin_walk_pmd_entry
+++ a/mm/madvise.c
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ static int swapin_walk_pmd_entry(pmd_t *
put_page(page);
}
swap_read_unplug(splug);
+ cond_resched();
return 0;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-hwposion-support-recovery-from-ksm_might_need_to_copy.patch
