+ memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages.patch

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages

We have received a bug report that unbinding a large pmem (>1TB) can
result in a soft lockup:

[  380.339203] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 23s! [ndctl:4365]
[...]
[  380.339316] Supported: Yes
[  380.339318] CPU: 9 PID: 4365 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 4.12.14-94.40-default #1 SLE12-SP4
[  380.339318] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFD/S2600WFD, BIOS SE5C620.86B.01.00.0833.051120182255 05/11/2018
[  380.339319] task: ffff9cce7d4410c0 task.stack: ffffbe9eb1bc4000
[  380.339325] RIP: 0010:__put_page+0x62/0x80
[  380.339326] RSP: 0018:ffffbe9eb1bc7d30 EFLAGS: 00000282 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10
[  380.339327] RAX: 000040540081c0d3 RBX: ffffeb8f03557200 RCX: 000063af40000000
[  380.339328] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffff9cce75bff498 RDI: ffff9e4a76072ff8
[  380.339329] RBP: 0000000a43557200 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffbe9eb1bc7bb0
[  380.339329] R10: ffffbe9eb1bc7d08 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9e194a22a0e0
[  380.339330] R13: ffff9cce7062fc10 R14: ffff9e194a22a0a0 R15: ffff9cce6559c0e0
[  380.339331] FS:  00007fd132368880(0000) GS:ffff9cce7ea40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  380.339332] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  380.339332] CR2: 00000000020820a0 CR3: 000000017ef7a003 CR4: 00000000007606e0
[  380.339333] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  380.339334] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  380.339334] PKRU: 55555554
[  380.339334] Call Trace:
[  380.339338]  devm_memremap_pages_release+0x152/0x260
[  380.339342]  release_nodes+0x18d/0x1d0
[  380.339347]  device_release_driver_internal+0x160/0x210
[  380.339350]  unbind_store+0xb3/0xe0
[  380.339355]  kernfs_fop_write+0x102/0x180
[  380.339358]  __vfs_write+0x26/0x150
[  380.339363]  ? security_file_permission+0x3c/0xc0
[  380.339364]  vfs_write+0xad/0x1a0
[  380.339366]  SyS_write+0x42/0x90
[  380.339370]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x150
[  380.339375]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
[  380.339377] RIP: 0033:0x7fd13166b3d0

It has been reported on an older (4.12) kernel but the current upstream
code doesn't cond_resched in the hot remove code at all and the given
range to remove might be really large.  Fix the issue by calling
cond_resched once per memory section.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181031125840.23982-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/memory_hotplug.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, un
 	for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
 		unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
 
+		cond_resched();
 		ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn), map_offset,
 				altmap);
 		map_offset = 0;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are

memory_hotplug-cond_resched-in-__remove_pages.patch
mm-thp-consolidate-thp-gfp-handling-into-alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask.patch




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