From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395E2C2BB1D for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE0D214AF for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:12:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1587161570; bh=ON4JdnnSp41GHtVfQ1OKELVDXoHAdZJmnEWPX+XFdCw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=e58aWREDMEUFDe9iL22sYgbKoLP5thZJ2MQFEuo7yOQcPK8Bdco019rW3xO4ZI9II OJHqOJKAMSymjz4LdGCFnibcOXBmZFNraZFu3iMiTHLKizRUgXVgNxc6LMkuNWhoFB E9JRRQYPkR3ZsOqxweRVwY1e1tXQWRPUU4fWTlug= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728517AbgDQWMt (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:12:49 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44998 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726284AbgDQWMs (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:12:48 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-231-172-41.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.231.172.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC87120B1F; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:12:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1587161568; bh=ON4JdnnSp41GHtVfQ1OKELVDXoHAdZJmnEWPX+XFdCw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=CDWhqyB/IlZyphu6jsbA1XfIALDH+nOe4HMk0CDTKJ7edRKniwEH2Cq+6D/wK2Gtl LEi7bg2GM4iBlFWRMCs4hLDij8zeCyTpVgDxl8AmR4nH1dTgIso263RiE9OJ6J4j6z gAz6SYiK4GGU1A0Frqsr7AiKouEeUxj1Au0TBSAk= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:12:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Hildenbrand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pavel Tatashin , Pankaj Gupta , Baoquan He , Shile Zhang , Michal Hocko , Kirill Tkhai , Daniel Jordan , Michal Hocko , Alexander Duyck , Oscar Salvador Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous() Message-Id: <20200417151247.0068d5aa3f026ced2289ce31@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20200416073417.5003-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20200416073417.5003-1-david@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:34:17 +0200 David Hildenbrand wrote: > Without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can happen that we get soft lockups detected, > e.g., while booting up. > > ... > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -1607,6 +1607,7 @@ void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone) > if (!__pageblock_pfn_to_page(block_start_pfn, > block_end_pfn, zone)) > return; > + cond_resched(); > } > > /* We confirm that there is no hole */ I added cc:stable to this one. Please let me know if that wasn't a good idea.