On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 23:20 +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
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>
> From: Yu Zhao <yuz...@google.com>
>
> commit ef70762948dde012146926720b70e79736336764 upstream.
>
> I saw need_resched() warnings when swapping on large swapfile (TBs)
> because continuously allocating many pages in swap_cgroup_prepare() took
> too long.
>
> We already cond_resched when freeing page in swap_cgroup_swapoff(). Do
> the same for the page allocation.
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That seems to imply that this should also go into stable branches:
commit 460bcec84e11c75122ace5976214abbc596eb91b
Author: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Date: Fri Apr 7 16:05:00 2017 -0700
mm, swap_cgroup: reschedule when neeed in swap_cgroup_swapoff()
Ben.
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