This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm cache: add cond_resched() to various workqueue loops to the 4.14-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-cache-add-cond_resched-to-various-workqueue-loops.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a8b9efb0e05cff96bee46c9665f2b9e9a47e5722 Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 16 15:31:08 2023 -0500 dm cache: add cond_resched() to various workqueue loops [ Upstream commit 76227f6dc805e9e960128bcc6276647361e0827c ] 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-cache-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c index 5458a06971670..590aff275acb8 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c @@ -1952,6 +1952,7 @@ static void process_deferred_bios(struct work_struct *ws) else commit_needed = process_bio(cache, bio) || commit_needed; + cond_resched(); } if (commit_needed) @@ -1974,6 +1975,7 @@ static void requeue_deferred_bios(struct cache *cache) while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bios))) { bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_DM_REQUEUE; bio_endio(bio); + cond_resched(); } } @@ -2014,6 +2016,8 @@ static void check_migrations(struct work_struct *ws) r = mg_start(cache, op, NULL); if (r) break; + + cond_resched(); } }