From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:15:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181031121550.2f0cbd10a948880e534beaf7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181031125840.23982-1-mhocko@kernel.org>
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:58:40 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> We have received a bug report that unbinding a large pmem (>1TB)
> can result in a soft lockup:
>
> ...
>
> It has been reported on an older (4.12) kernel but the current upstream
> code doesn't cond_resched in the hot remove code at all and the given
> range to remove might be really large. Fix the issue by calling cond_resched
> once per memory section.
>
Worthy of a cc:stable, I suggest?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-31 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-31 12:58 Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 13:11 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-10-31 19:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-10-31 21:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 3:52 ` Balbir Singh
2018-11-02 7:05 ` Michal Hocko
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