Commit 9b6e63cb authored Oct 03, 2017 by Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 03, 2017

mm, page_alloc: add scheduling point to memmap_init_zone

memmap_init_zone gets a pfn range to initialize and it can be really
large resulting in a soft lockup on non-preemptible kernels

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#31 stuck for 23s! [kworker/u642:5:1720]
  [...]
  task: ffff88ecd7e902c0 ti: ffff88eca4e50000 task.ti: ffff88eca4e50000
  RIP: move_pfn_range_to_zone+0x185/0x1d0
  [...]
  Call Trace:
    devm_memremap_pages+0x2c7/0x430
    pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem]
    nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm]
    driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420
    bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80
    __device_attach+0xb0/0x130
    bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
    device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0
    nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm]
    async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150
    process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
    worker_thread+0x116/0x490
    kthread+0xc7/0xe0
    ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

Fix this by adding a scheduling point once per page block.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-3-mhocko@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent f64ac5e6

mm/page_alloc.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -5367,6 +5367,7 @@ not_early:

		__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
		set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
		cond_resched();
		} else {
		__init_single_pfn(pfn, zone, nid);
		}

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