Re: [PATCH] mm: add cond_resched() in gather_pte_stats()

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Mon 05-12-16 22:00:22, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The other pagetable walks in task_mmu.c have a cond_resched() after
> walking their ptes: add a cond_resched() in gather_pte_stats() too,
> for reading /proc/<id>/numa_maps.  Only pagemap_pmd_range() has a
> cond_resched() in its (unusually expensive) pmd_trans_huge case:
> more should probably be added, but leave them unchanged for now.

The patch seems correct, I am just wondering whether pushing the
cond_resched into the pte walk code (walk_pmd_range) would be more
appropriate.
 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Anyway
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

> ---
> 
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- 4.9-rc8/fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2016-10-23 17:33:00.156860538 -0700
> +++ linux/fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2016-12-05 20:27:04.084531599 -0800
> @@ -1588,6 +1588,7 @@ static int gather_pte_stats(pmd_t *pmd,
>  
>  	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
>  	pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);
> +	cond_resched();
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> 
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