Commit f81f9fb3 authored by Juergen Gross's avatar Juergen Gross Committed by Zheng Zengkai
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xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue

stable inclusion
from stable-5.10.70
commit 372d3e6ea1e115942fdfb4b25f7003d822d071be
bugzilla: 182949 https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4I3GQ

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=372d3e6ea1e115942fdfb4b25f7003d822d071be



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Today the Xen ballooning is done via delayed work in a workqueue. This
might result in workqueue hangups being reported in case of large
amounts of memory are being ballooned in one go (here 16GB):

BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 64s!
Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
workqueue events: flags=0x0
  pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 refcnt=3
    in-flight: 229:balloon_process
    pending: cache_reap
workqueue events_freezable_power_: flags=0x84
  pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
    pending: disk_events_workfn
workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8
  pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2
    pending: vmstat_update
pool 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=64s workers=3 idle: 2222 43

This can easily be avoided by using a dedicated kernel thread for doing
the ballooning work.

Reported-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827123206.15429-1-jgross@suse.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWeilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>

Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Jun <chenjun102@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
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