On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 22:01:48 +0530, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> While removing large number of mappings from hash page tables for
> large memory systems as soft-lockup is reported because of the time
> spent inside htap_remove_mapping() like one below:
>
> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
> <snip>
> NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x58
> LR pSeries_lpar_hpte_invalidate+0x68/0xb0
> Call Trace:
> 0x1fffffffffff000 (unreliable)
> pSeries_lpar_hpte_removebolted+0x9c/0x230
> hash__remove_section_mapping+0xec/0x1c0
> remove_section_mapping+0x28/0x3c
> arch_remove_memory+0xfc/0x150
> devm_memremap_pages_release+0x180/0x2f0
> devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
> release_nodes+0x28c/0x300
> device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x280
> unbind_store+0x124/0x170
> drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
> sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
> kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
> __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
> vfs_write+0xd4/0x270
> ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
> system_call+0x5c/0x70
>
> [...]
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/1] powerpc/mm: Add cond_resched() while removing hpte mappings
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a5d6a3e73acbd619dd5b7b831762b755f9e2db80
cheers
