mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()
authorAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:17:52 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:31:17 +0000 (09:31 +0100)
commitabcc78627877cef68144475e88952b0957406024
treec359ebc1d81f0db847ced99d010db3ae70549a5a
parentae04ca35247af576999da5ef726d1a03fc65de09
mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()

commit 4991c09c7c812dba13ea9be79a68b4565bb1fa4e upstream.

While testing on a large CPU system, detected the following RCU stall
many times over the span of the workload.  This problem is solved by
adding a cond_resched() in the change_pmd_range() function.

  INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
   154-....: (670 ticks this GP) idle=022/140000000000000/0 softirq=2825/2825 fqs=612
   (detected by 955, t=6002 jiffies, g=4486, c=4485, q=90864)
  Sending NMI from CPU 955 to CPUs 154:
  NMI backtrace for cpu 154
  CPU: 154 PID: 147071 Comm: workload Not tainted 4.15.0-rc3+ #3
  NIP:  c0000000000b3f64 LR: c0000000000b33d4 CTR: 000000000000aa18
  REGS: 00000000a4b0fb44 TRAP: 0501   Not tainted  (4.15.0-rc3+)
  MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 22422082  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: 00000000006cf8f0 SOFTE: 1
  GPR00: 0010000000000000 c00003ef9b1cb8c0 c0000000010cc600 0000000000000000
  GPR04: 8e0000018c32b200 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b208 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR08: 8e0000018c32b210 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b218 40017b3858fd6e00
  GPR12: ffffffffffffffff c00000000fb25100
  NIP [c0000000000b3f64] plpar_hcall9+0x44/0x7c
  LR [c0000000000b33d4] pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range+0x384/0x420
  Call Trace:
    flush_hash_range+0x48/0x100
    __flush_tlb_pending+0x44/0xd0
    hpte_need_flush+0x408/0x470
    change_protection_range+0xaac/0xf10
    change_prot_numa+0x30/0xb0
    task_numa_work+0x2d0/0x3e0
    task_work_run+0x130/0x190
    do_notify_resume+0x118/0x120
    ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74
  Instruction dump:
  60000000 f8810028 7ca42b78 7cc53378 7ce63b78 7d074378 7d284b78 7d495378
  e9410060 e9610068 e9810070 44000022 <7d806378e9810028 f88c0000 f8ac0008

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214140551.5794-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mprotect.c