[merged] kasan-resched-in-quarantine_remove_cache.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: kasan: resched in quarantine_remove_cache()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kasan-resched-in-quarantine_remove_cache.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kasan: resched in quarantine_remove_cache()

We see reported stalls/lockups in quarantine_remove_cache() on machines
with large amounts of RAM.  quarantine_remove_cache() needs to scan whole
quarantine in order to take out all objects belonging to the cache. 
Quarantine is currently 1/32-th of RAM, e.g.  on a machine with 256GB of
memory that will be 8GB.  Moreover quarantine scanning is a walk over
uncached linked list, which is slow.

Add cond_resched() after scanning of each non-empty batch of objects. 
Batches are specifically kept of reasonable size for quarantine_put().  On
a machine with 256GB of RAM we should have ~512 non-empty batches, each
with 16MB of objects.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170308154239.25440-1-dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/kasan/quarantine.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/kasan/quarantine.c~kasan-resched-in-quarantine_remove_cache mm/kasan/quarantine.c
--- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c~kasan-resched-in-quarantine_remove_cache
+++ a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
@@ -283,8 +283,15 @@ void quarantine_remove_cache(struct kmem
 	on_each_cpu(per_cpu_remove_cache, cache, 1);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
-	for (i = 0; i < QUARANTINE_BATCHES; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < QUARANTINE_BATCHES; i++) {
+		if (qlist_empty(&global_quarantine[i]))
+			continue;
 		qlist_move_cache(&global_quarantine[i], &to_free, cache);
+		/* Scanning whole quarantine can take a while. */
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
+		cond_resched();
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
 
 	qlist_free_all(&to_free, cache);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx are





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