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Commit e84fe99b authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous()



Without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can happen that we get soft lockups detected,
e.g., while booting up.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-next-20200331+ #4
  Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014
  RIP: __pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x134/0x1c0
  Call Trace:
   set_zone_contiguous+0x56/0x70
   page_alloc_init_late+0x166/0x176
   kernel_init_freeable+0xfa/0x255
   kernel_init+0xa/0x106
   ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

The issue becomes visible when having a lot of memory (e.g., 4TB)
assigned to a single NUMA node - a system that can easily be created
using QEMU.  Inside VMs on a hypervisor with quite some memory
overcommit, this is fairly easy to trigger.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416073417.5003-1-david@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 11d67612
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