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| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h index ed6642ad03e..25f01d0bc14 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ struct mmu_gather_batch { #define MAX_GATHER_BATCH \ ((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct mmu_gather_batch)) / sizeof(void *)) +/* + * Limit the maximum number of mmu_gather batches to reduce a risk of soft + * lockups for non-preemptible kernels on huge machines when a lot of memory + * is zapped during unmapping. + * 10K pages freed at once should be safe even without a preemption point. + */ +#define MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT (10000UL/MAX_GATHER_BATCH) + /* struct mmu_gather is an opaque type used by the mm code for passing around * any data needed by arch specific code for tlb_remove_page. */ @@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ struct mmu_gather { struct mmu_gather_batch *active; struct mmu_gather_batch local; struct page *__pages[MMU_GATHER_BUNDLE]; + unsigned int batch_count; }; #define HAVE_GENERIC_MMU_GATHER diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index e0a9b0ce4f1..49fb1cf0861 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -184,10 +184,14 @@ static int tlb_next_batch(struct mmu_gather *tlb) return 1; } + if (tlb->batch_count == MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT) + return 0; + batch = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN, 0); if (!batch) return 0; + tlb->batch_count++; batch->next = NULL; batch->nr = 0; batch->max = MAX_GATHER_BATCH; @@ -216,6 +220,7 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, bool fullmm) tlb->local.nr = 0; tlb->local.max = ARRAY_SIZE(tlb->__pages); tlb->active = &tlb->local; + tlb->batch_count = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE tlb->batch = NULL; |