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Michal Hocko committed 1fdcce6e16c
memremap: add scheduling point to devm_memremap_pages
devm_memremap_pages is initializing struct pages in for_each_device_pfn
and that can take quite some time. We have even seen a soft lockup
triggering on a non preemptive kernel
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#61 stuck for 22s! [kworker/u641:11:1808]
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8118b6b7>] [<ffffffff8118b6b7>] devm_memremap_pages+0x327/0x430
[...]
Call Trace:
pmem_attach_disk+0x2fd/0x3f0 [nd_pmem]
nvdimm_bus_probe+0x64/0x110 [libnvdimm]
driver_probe_device+0x1f7/0x420
bus_for_each_drv+0x52/0x80
__device_attach+0xb0/0x130
bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
device_add+0x3fc/0x5f0
nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x40 [libnvdimm]
async_run_entry_fn+0x43/0x150
process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
worker_thread+0x116/0x490
kthread+0xc7/0xe0
ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
fix this by adding cond_resched every 1024 pages.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170918121410.24466-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>