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    hugetlb: fix potential livelock in return_unused_surplus_hugepages() · 11320d17
    Nishanth Aravamudan authored
    Running the counters testcase from libhugetlbfs results in on 2.6.25-rc5
    and 2.6.25-rc5-mm1:
    
        BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [counters:10531]
        NIP: c0000000000d1f3c LR: c0000000000d1f2c CTR: c0000000001b5088
        REGS: c000005db12cb360 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (2.6.25-rc5-autokern1)
        MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 48008448  XER: 20000000
        TASK = c000005dbf3d6000[10531] 'counters' THREAD: c000005db12c8000 CPU: 3
        GPR00: 0000000000000004 c000005db12cb5e0 c000000000879228 0000000000000004
        GPR04: 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 0000000000100100
        GPR08: c0000000008aba10 000000000000ffff 0000000000000004 0000000000000000
        GPR12: 0000000028000442 c000000000770080
        NIP [c0000000000d1f3c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x84/0x18c
        LR [c0000000000d1f2c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x74/0x18c
        Call Trace:
        [c000005db12cb5e0] [c000005db12cb670] 0xc000005db12cb670 (unreliable)
        [c000005db12cb670] [c0000000000d24c4] .hugetlb_acct_memory+0x2e0/0x354
        [c000005db12cb740] [c0000000001b5048] .truncate_hugepages+0x1d4/0x214
        [c000005db12cb890] [c0000000001b50a4] .hugetlbfs_delete_inode+0x1c/0x3c
        [c000005db12cb920] [c000000000103fd8] .generic_delete_inode+0xf8/0x1c0
        [c000005db12cb9b0] [c0000000001b5100] .hugetlbfs_drop_inode+0x3c/0x24c
        [c000005db12cba50] [c00000000010287c] .iput+0xdc/0xf8
        [c000005db12cbad0] [c0000000000fee54] .dentry_iput+0x12c/0x194
        [c000005db12cbb60] [c0000000000ff050] .d_kill+0x6c/0xa4
        [c000005db12cbbf0] [c0000000000ffb74] .dput+0x18c/0x1b0
        [c000005db12cbc70] [c0000000000e9e98] .__fput+0x1a4/0x1e8
        [c000005db12cbd10] [c0000000000e61ec] .filp_close+0xb8/0xe0
        [c000005db12cbda0] [c0000000000e62d0] .sys_close+0xbc/0x134
        [c000005db12cbe30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
        Instruction dump:
        ebbe8038 38800010 e8bf0002 3bbd0008 7fa3eb78 38a50001 7ca507b4 4818df25
        60000000 38800010 38a00000 7c601b78 <7fa3eb78> 2f800010 409d0008 38000010
    
    This was tracked down to a potential livelock in
    return_unused_surplus_hugepages().  In the case where we have surplus
    pages on some node, but no free pages on the same node, we may never
    break out of the loop. To avoid this livelock, terminate the search if
    we iterate a number of times equal to the number of online nodes without
    freeing a page.
    
    Thanks to Andy Whitcroft and Adam Litke for helping with debugging and
    the patch.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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