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Commit 520495fe authored by Cannon Matthews's avatar Cannon Matthews Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages

When booting with very large numbers of gigantic (i.e.  1G) pages, the
operations in the loop of gather_bootmem_prealloc, and specifically
prep_compound_gigantic_page, takes a very long time, and can cause a
softlockup if enough pages are requested at boot.

For example booting with 3844 1G pages requires prepping
(set_compound_head, init the count) over 1 billion 4K tail pages, which
takes considerable time.

Add a cond_resched() to the outer loop in gather_bootmem_prealloc() to
prevent this lockup.

Tested: Booted with softlockup_panic=1 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=3844 and
no softlockup is reported, and the hugepages are reported as
successfully setup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627214447.260804-1-cannonmatthews@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1e2c0436
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