16f6b67cf0
With large memory (8TB and more) hotplug, we can get soft lockup
warnings as below. These were caused by a long loop without any
explicit cond_resched which is a problem for !PREEMPT kernels.
Avoid this using cond_resched() while inserting hash page table
entries. We already do similar cond_resched() in __add_pages(), see
commit f64ac5e6e306 ("mm, memory_hotplug: add scheduling point to
__add_pages").
rcu: 3-....: (24002 ticks this GP) idle=13e/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=722/722 fqs=12001
(t=24003 jiffies g=4285 q=2002)
NMI backtrace for cpu 3
CPU: 3 PID: 3870 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 5.3.0-197.18-default+ #2
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xb0/0xf4 (unreliable)
nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x124/0x130
nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x1ac/0x1f0
arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0x28/0x3c
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xf8/0x154
rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x878/0xb40
update_process_times+0x48/0x90
tick_sched_handle.isra.16+0x4c/0x80
tick_sched_timer+0x68/0xe0
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x180/0x430
hrtimer_interrupt+0x110/0x300
timer_interrupt+0x108/0x2f0
decrementer_common+0x114/0x120
--- interrupt: 901 at arch_add_memory+0xc0/0x130
LR = arch_add_memory+0x74/0x130
memremap_pages+0x494/0x650
devm_memremap_pages+0x3c/0xa0
pmem_attach_disk+0x188/0x750
nvdimm_bus_probe+0xac/0x2c0
really_probe+0x148/0x570
driver_probe_device+0x19c/0x1d0
device_driver_attach+0xcc/0x100
bind_store+0x134/0x1c0
drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
kernfs_fop_write+0x1a0/0x270
__vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
vfs_write+0xd0/0x260
ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
system_call+0x5c/0x68
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001084656.31277-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.