[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 18/28] powerpc/pseries/mobility: use cond_resched when updating device tree

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Wed Sep 25 02:50:21 AEST 2019


From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit ccfb5bd71d3d1228090a8633800ae7cdf42a94ac ]

After a partition migration, pseries_devicetree_update() processes
changes to the device tree communicated from the platform to
Linux. This is a relatively heavyweight operation, with multiple
device tree searches, memory allocations, and conversations with
partition firmware.

There's a few levels of nested loops which are bounded only by
decisions made by the platform, outside of Linux's control, and indeed
we have seen RCU stalls on large systems while executing this call
graph. Use cond_resched() in these loops so that the cpu is yielded
when needed.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802192926.19277-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c
index 4addc552eb33d..9739a055e5f7b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/stat.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
@@ -208,7 +209,11 @@ static int update_dt_node(__be32 phandle, s32 scope)
 
 				prop_data += vd;
 			}
+
+			cond_resched();
 		}
+
+		cond_resched();
 	} while (rtas_rc == 1);
 
 	of_node_put(dn);
@@ -317,8 +322,12 @@ int pseries_devicetree_update(s32 scope)
 					add_dt_node(phandle, drc_index);
 					break;
 				}
+
+				cond_resched();
 			}
 		}
+
+		cond_resched();
 	} while (rc == 1);
 
 	kfree(rtas_buf);
-- 
2.20.1



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