Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] mm/page_alloc: fix stalls/soft lockups with huge VMs

[David Hildenbrand]

> Am 01.04.2020 um 20:06 schrieb Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> ïOn Wed, 1 Apr 2020 10:45:29 -0400 Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 04:31:51PM +0200, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>>>>> On 01.04.20 12:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>> Two fixes for misleading stall messages / soft lockups with huge nodes /
>>>>>> zones during boot without CONFIG_PREEMPT.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> David Hildenbrand (2):
>>>>>>  mm/page_alloc: fix RCU stalls during deferred page initialization
>>>>>>  mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous()
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Patch #1 requires "[PATCH v3] mm: fix tick timer stall during deferred
>>>>> page init"
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311123848.118638-1-shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 
>>> Thanks! Took me some time to figure it out.
>> 
>> FYI, I'm planning to post an alternate version of that fix, hopefully today if
>> all goes well with my testing.
> 
> I assume you'll redo this two-patch series to apply on top of this
> forthcoming patch?
> 

Yes, will wait until the old one in -next has been replaced by a revised one. Thanks!