3.8.13.24 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Mizuma, Masayoshi" <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index db8bc0a..35fc5eb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@ 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);
}
}
--
1.9.1
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