3.8.13.22 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 upstream. When adding or removing 100G from a balloon: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367] We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true (more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep. We also have a wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU is synchronous for balloon operations. Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary <gopchaud@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c index 797e1c7..494e1f7 100644 --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c @@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ static int balloon(void *_vballoon) else if (diff < 0) leak_balloon(vb, -diff); update_balloon_size(vb); + + /* + * For large balloon changes, we could spend a lot of time + * and always have work to do. Be nice if preempt disabled. + */ + cond_resched(); } return 0; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html