Clearing very big IOMMU tables can trigger soft lockups. This adds
cond_resched() for every second spend in the loop.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>
---
The testcase is POWER9 box with 264GB guest, 4 VFIO devices from
independent IOMMU groups, 64K IOMMU pages. This configuration produces
4325376 TCE entries, each entry update incurs 4 OPAL calls to update
an individual PE TCE cache; this produced lockups for more than 20s.
Reducing table size to 4194304 (i.e. 256GB guest) or removing one
of 4 VFIO devices makes the problem go away.
---
Changes:
v2:
* replaced with time based solution
---
drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
index 63112c36ab2d..b7a317520f2a 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
@@ -505,8 +505,15 @@ static int tce_iommu_clear(struct tce_container *container,
unsigned long oldhpa;
long ret;
enum dma_data_direction direction;
+ unsigned long time_limit = jiffies + HZ;
for ( ; pages; --pages, ++entry) {
+
+ if (time_after(jiffies, time_limit)) {
+ cond_resched();
+ time_limit = jiffies + HZ;
+ }
+
direction = DMA_NONE;
oldhpa = 0;
ret = iommu_tce_xchg(tbl, entry, &oldhpa, &direction);
--
2.11.0
