This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm thin: add cond_resched() to various workqueue loops to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dm-thin-add-cond_resched-to-various-workqueue-loops.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1b3dbf62fcc037c1fc113025e46da228db0390ca Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 16 15:29:44 2023 -0500 dm thin: add cond_resched() to various workqueue loops [ Upstream commit e4f80303c2353952e6e980b23914e4214487f2a6 ] Otherwise on resource constrained systems these workqueues may be too greedy. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index 4f161725dda0a..999447bde8203 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -2224,6 +2224,7 @@ static void process_thin_deferred_bios(struct thin_c *tc) throttle_work_update(&pool->throttle); dm_pool_issue_prefetches(pool->pmd); } + cond_resched(); } blk_finish_plug(&plug); } @@ -2307,6 +2308,7 @@ static void process_thin_deferred_cells(struct thin_c *tc) else pool->process_cell(tc, cell); } + cond_resched(); } while (!list_empty(&cells)); }