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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:15:50 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages
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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>

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?