From 7848a4bf51b34f41fcc9bd77e837126d99ae84e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mizuma, Masayoshi" Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:07:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages() soft lockup in freeing gigantic hugepage fixed in commit 55f67141a892 "mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed." can happen in return_unused_surplus_pages(), so let's fix it. Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Aneesh Kumar Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index dd30f22b35e0..246192929a2d 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1172,6 +1172,7 @@ static void return_unused_surplus_pages(struct hstate *h, while (nr_pages--) { if (!free_pool_huge_page(h, &node_states[N_MEMORY], 1)) break; + cond_resched_lock(&hugetlb_lock); } }