From: "Mizuma, Masayoshi" <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 7848a4bf51b34f41fcc9bd77e837126d99ae84e3 upstream. soft lockup in freeing gigantic hugepage fixed in commit 55f67141a892 "mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed." can happen in return_unused_surplus_pages(), so let's fix it. Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index efbb9dc67f2f..92e103b72dcb 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1177,6 +1177,7 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(struct hstate *h, while (nr_pages--) { if (!free_pool_huge_page(h, &node_states[N_MEMORY], 1)) break; + cond_resched_lock(&hugetlb_lock); } } -- 1.9.3 -- 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